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Tagged with: planning, project planning, writing, writing planning, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction
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 And Their Families
As authors, we need to know everything about our characters. Most people have relationships and our characters should as well. How do your characters get on with their families? What kind of friends do they have? How do they react…
Tagged with: character development, character relationships, characters, fiction, fictional relationships, writing
Posted in Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Research
Research is important and accurate research can be vital. You need it for anything you write. Fiction needs research just as much as nonfiction does. The reason is a writer needs to know what they are writing about. I find…
Tagged with: fact checking, fact-finding, Research, writing, writing groundwork, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Self Criticism
You need to know when you are giving yourself constructive criticism, the words that make your project the best it can be and when you are just running yourself and you work down. That’s the tricky thing. You are your…
Tagged with: constructive criticism, criticism, destructive criticism, editing, editor, revision
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction
Your Character’s Health
Everyone has health, good or bad. Giving your character health concerns will make them more real to the reader. Unless your character is a whining hypochondriac, just mentioning their overall health now and then is sufficient. The trick is not…
Tagged with: Character, character development, characterization, characters, Characters health, writing
Posted in Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Repetition In Writing
A small amount of repetition can help emphasize points and complement your righting but too much is boring. If you are like me, you likely over used a word or two in your writing. Most word processing software include mechanisms…
Tagged with: author, authors, repetition, word, word frequency, words, Write, writer, writers, writing, Writing Techniques, Writing Tools
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction
What makes a good character?
That’s a very good question. The best characters are flawed. They are neither wholly good or wholly evil. They do their best with good or bad results. In short, they are like real people. They drink, swear, and lie. They…
Tagged with: character flaws, characters, fiction, fiction techniqus, fiction writing, writing, writing fiction, Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
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