Wednesday, February 23
Hunter S.
"Thompson had a gift for the details and one of the best crap detectors in history. His flawless nose for the truths, dynamics, and motivations driving the players starring in his stories lent those narratives a quality that somehow fused unflinching naturalism with sweeping mythology."
This is from one of a gazillion obits and memories, on the good doctor flooding the web this week, and it's the one 'graph I've 'note to self'ed to remind myself to capture the motivations and dynamics of the fictional characters I write about, really know and understand them, to make the fiction better. And, as my friend Krell always says, focus and capture the important, revealing details.
