RE: Dan Brown Books.
September 1, 2015 at 6:47 am
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2015 at 6:52 am by Alex K.)
For my thriller I so far have 15 pages of character bio and psych profile and 20 pages of manuscript. The character bio is incredibly important. It renders writing some things almost automatic that would otherwise be arduous and forced: it provides motivation, material, it allows you to have a character behave consistently and to hint at things consistently that are only later fully revealed if at all. For example, a female lead of mine is a trans woman, but it will not be a big deal, will probably never be stated explicitely, maybe hinted at towards the end. But it will let her have certain fears and will render some relationships more complicated.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
