Posted on November 9, 2021 at 9:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Longtime book editor Jim Dempsey says writers can borrow at least one insight from the corporate world.
An international business, when asking whether an employee wants to accept a transfer abroad, might ask them to consider the people they’ll miss while geographically far away.
Dempsey calls this a “me map,” though for your novel, you’ll substitute the main character in for yourself.
In essence, you’re asking yourself whether each character that the hero/heroine encounters is essential to the story (and worth the reader’s energy to notice and remember).
Dempsey provides an example of “me mapping” in a post on making every character count at Writer Unboxed.
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