Characters can be fun to create. You want your heroes to be heroic and your villains to be villainous. Right? Of course. In the real world, though, no one is all good or all bad. Humans are a mixture of…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Brainstorming Tools: The Journal
If you are like me, you keep a journal. Most writers do. I use mine for a lot of things. It records my thoughts. It lets me write drafts of stories, notes on various aspects of stories and characters. It’s…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Planning A Fiction Series
Sometimes the story you want to tell is too big for a single book to cover. That’s when you need to create a series. To plan a series, you need to plan each book in advance. You can do this…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Making And Meeting Self-imposed Deadlines
Deadlines are a scourge. That’s how most of us view them. They are necessary evils that keep us on track. That’s the better way to view them. I advocate setting a deadline for yourself. I do that and I find…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Overcoming Word Bloat
Word bloat is just what it says. It’s when a writer has used too many word24s to describe something. You don’t have to describer every single detail. A broad description is good enough. Too many details can be boring and…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Writer’s Block
This week, I’m returning to Writer’s Block. That’s because I have been suffering from it for a while, now. I have forced my writing and sometimes, it showed. Writers block is the term for when a writer can’t seem to…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Cubing As A Way To Analyze A Scene
I have to admit that I’m not too familiar with the brainstorming technique of cubing. From what I have learned so far, it’s method where you must think of six sides to an issue. This can be helpful in deciding…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Word Association
Another brainstorming technique is word association. The definaition is “the spontaneous production of other words in response to a given word.” It’s a great tool for writing because it can done as a game and could spark ideas. Tod do…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
The Brainstorming Technique of SWOT
Swot stands for strength, weakness, opportunity and threat. This method lets you find the strengths, weakness and problems for a particular idea, or scene. This is a good thing to do when you aren’t sure why a particular scene isn’t…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
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