We Hear That All the Time… Trust the Character… What it basically means is just stay true to the character you have set up in the opening of a story and let them tell the story to you. It is your creative voice playing through the character, but it is great fun to just follow a character you are writing just as you follow a character you are reading in another author’s book. I am always surprised by my characters when writing. Well, this last week I’ve been puttering along on a novel, not doing more than a thousand or two thousand words a day, even though I really like…