Call it March Madness, or just madness, but the
moment March stepped into view, I set myself very high goals. My March goals
are completing 2 chapter books, polishing a couple of picture books, reading my
adult novel to revise it again and ofcourse reading a few books.
Now that we are done with my writing and reading goals,
it’s time to focus on my IWSG post. Yes, its IWSG (Insecure Writers Support
Group) time again. IWSG is an online, global group of writers. We post on the
first Wednesday of the month. In our posts we tackle any of our writing
insecurities, worries, fears, discuss our writing and publishing problems, learn
from other writers who have overcome these doubts and anxieties and generally
use this group to let off our writing steam.
IWSG was started by Ninja Captain Alex Cavanaugh. Adorable,
Amazing Accomplished Alex is a guitarist, his blog is the place to visit for
writers of all genres, and he is also a best-selling author: his books CassaStar,
CassaStorm, CassaFire and Dragon of the Stars are all Amazon Bestsellers. The IWSG with its super-efficient team of dedicated writers has to its credit, writing
contests, twitter pitch parties, it has brought out several anthologies. The
IWSG website has amazing and informative posts from publishing experts.
The March 6 question - Whose perspective do you like
to write from best, the hero (protagonist) or the villain (antagonist)? And
why?
I have always written from the hero or the heroine’s
perspective. I think this POV works the best for me. I like being inside the
protagonist’s head and ultimately it is also about the battle of good versus
evil, so I would like to send the message to my readers (I write kidlit: picture
books, chapter books and middle grade books) that good triumphs over evil. Though
I do want to write a book from the antagonist’s perspective. I have written a
book where the hero has shades of grey, but he is not the out and out villain
that an antagonist would be.
Eager to read about all your writing perspectives.
