I’m working on a new book idea. And this time, I’m doing more upfront planning such as outlining and character development. I’m also reading more craft books. In Lisa Cron’s excellent Story Genius, she includes a story about elementary schoolers trying to write stories by throwing everything they can think of into a single plot prompt. She refers to it as “drawing with every crayon in the box.”
Which got me thinking… Which crayons do my characters have to color with, and how does that affect the way I draw them in on the page?