As authors, we want people to believe our characters are real. OK, not so much, but we do want them to be believable as people. People have jobs or careers. Our characters need jobs and careers as well. In life,…
Characters at Work
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
A Word About Pacing
Have you ever read a story and thought the characters should just get on with it? That’s an indication that the author missed the pace of the story. Pacing is the speed at which a story moves along. It can…
Tagged with: active voice, fiction, fiction techniques, pacing, Passive voice, readers, words, writers, writing, writing pacing, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Feline Freedom League Mission Report
From: Agent Mulder To: Mr. Whiskers Date: 3 February 2019 Subject: First Report of 2019 Something came up in the latter half of the previous year. The humans brought in cardboard toys. I do not believe the toys were for…
Tagged with: Cat, Cat Fiction, cats, feline, Feline Fiction, Feline Freedom League, FFL, fiction
Posted in Feline Freedom League Report
Posted in Feline Freedom League Report
Some tips on Dialog
Good dialog is often hard to write. For one thing, people speak differently than they write. We are encouraged to use full sentences when we write, but we often use fragments when we speak. When is the last time you…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Using An App to Create Characters
There are no shortcuts in writing, but there are some jump starters. For writing itself there are prompts to catapult you into a piece. There are character development apps to help get you started with characters. These apps ask you…
Tagged with: Character, character development, character generator, characterization, characters, writing, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Creating A Character Database
I create characters for practice. I don’t throw them out, I keep them. I do short character charts on them in a word processor. Then I store them in a rough database. OK, I stick the documents in a folder…
Tagged with: Character, character development, characters, database, writing, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Feline Freedom League January 2019
From: Agent Molly To: Mr. Whiskers Date: 6 January 2019 Subject: First Report of 2019 Over the course of the last several months, I have been endeavoring to find out what the noises are that I hear occasionally outside this…
Tagged with: Cat, Cat Fiction, cats, feline, Feline Fiction, Feline Freedom League, FFL, fiction
Posted in Feline Freedom League Report
Posted in Feline Freedom League Report
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