The setting can set the tone of the story, but the tone must match the action. A Gothic horror story rarely takes place in a one-bedroom stone cottage by the sea. That’s not to say it couldn’t, but it would…
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A Word About Setting
Setting is an important part of any story of any length. Stories involve action and action needs some place to happen. That’s the setting. Setting has to involve more than just one sense. There may not be a breeze in…
Tagged with: action and setting, setting, writing, writing setting, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Character Spirituality
In the process of developing your characters, you should consider the character’s religion and spiritual leanings. Religion is important to a lot of people in this world and they may be readers. Religion can be a thorny issue. Now it…
Tagged with: character beliefs, character development, character religion, character spirituality, characters
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Well Rounded Characters
As readers we like our characters to be realistic. Authors need to add flaws and virtues to their characters in order to engage the reader with the story. We remember the characters who come alive best. Those characters have flaws.…
Tagged with: character development, character flaws, character strengths, character traits, characters
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Make Your Characters A Little Weak
Good character development means making your characters as believable as possible. To do that you need a mix of characteristics and traits. Make your characters beautiful and vain, homely and giving, beautiful and unassuming, ugly and evil, lovely and evil,…
Tagged with: character creation, character flaws, character weaknesses, characterization, characters, fiction, writing
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Characters at Work
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,…
Tagged with: chacters, character career, character development, character job, characters, characters working, writing, Writing Techniques
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
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