Comments on: The Wound—Because Damaged People Make the BEST Stories https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/12/the-wound-because-damaged-people-make-the-best-stories/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Mon, 26 Dec 2016 17:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: No Wasted Ink Writer’s Links | No Wasted Ink https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/12/the-wound-because-damaged-people-make-the-best-stories/#comment-70021 Mon, 26 Dec 2016 17:01:09 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20562#comment-70021 […] The Wound—Because Damaged People Make the BEST Stories […]

]]> By: Top Picks Thursday! For Readers & Writers 12-15-2016 | The Author Chronicles https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/12/the-wound-because-damaged-people-make-the-best-stories/#comment-70020 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:02:03 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20562#comment-70020 […] characters entice readers. Kristen Lamb explores the Wound and the Blind Spot to enhance your characters, A. Howitt describes the how and why of making it […]

]]> By: Jacob Airey https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/12/the-wound-because-damaged-people-make-the-best-stories/#comment-70019 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 01:19:14 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20562#comment-70019 This was such a great article. Thank you, Kristen Lamb!

]]> By: Writing Links in the 3s and 6…12/12/16 – Where Genres Collide https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/12/the-wound-because-damaged-people-make-the-best-stories/#comment-70018 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:02:02 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20562#comment-70018 […] https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2016/12/05/the-wound-because-damaged-people-make-the-best-stori… You need the wound to drive the plot and character. […]

]]> By: Deborah Makarios https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/12/the-wound-because-damaged-people-make-the-best-stories/#comment-70017 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 04:49:03 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20562#comment-70017 In reply to Finley Hollister (@FinleyHollister).

True! It’s solemn-dark (like a Greek tragedy) that I can’t do. Still like to read it, though. Despairing-dark, on the other hand, I don’t like to write or read.

]]> By: Finley Hollister (@FinleyHollister) https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/12/the-wound-because-damaged-people-make-the-best-stories/#comment-70016 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 03:46:27 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20562#comment-70016 In reply to Deborah Makarios.

You can be wounded and funny. I think it was Hawkeye in M*A*S*H* that said “You laugh so you don’t scream.” Something like that. Humour can be a defense mechanism.

]]> By: robbiesinspiration https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/12/the-wound-because-damaged-people-make-the-best-stories/#comment-70015 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:08:50 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20562#comment-70015 I like this advice. I never really thought about how you put the whole story together but what you have said makes absolute sense.

]]> By: gabe https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/12/the-wound-because-damaged-people-make-the-best-stories/#comment-70014 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:42:07 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20562#comment-70014 I get it. Thanks for the great visuals. But…you mean my bike is old?

]]> By: kdrose1 https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/12/the-wound-because-damaged-people-make-the-best-stories/#comment-70013 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:01:46 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20562#comment-70013 Reblogged this on authorkdrose.

]]> By: Erika Beebe https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/12/the-wound-because-damaged-people-make-the-best-stories/#comment-70012 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 10:50:51 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20562#comment-70012 Great post! I think who we are naturally comes out in our plots and characters. It’s channeling these hurts and then picking the right character to bear them. Sometimes I believe our hurts come out as we right on accident too. Thank you for the advice.

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