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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Creating Believable Characters
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Love What You Write
Writing can be an enjoyable experience or it can be a nightmare. It’s your choice. It doesn’t have to be a chore. The trick is to find a story you want to tell. Don’t worry about what’s selling, although that…
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Why Complete Character Charts?
Character charts are lists of questions that a fiction author must answer. It’s a good way to get to know their characters. The charts are the best way for an author to get to know the character and what makes…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Your Character-s Morning Routine
One good way to get a handle on your characters is to figure out how they start their days. Sit down and come up with a morning routine for each of them. It can help you to bring them alive.…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Using Fan Fiction As A Writing Exercise
Fan fiction is the practice of writing stories for your favorite TV shows, movies, books, etc. These usually use the worlds, characters and norms created by someone else. This is perfectly legal as long as you don’t claim it as…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
How many characters does a story need?
The answer is — it depends. It depends on the story itself. What are you trying to do. Are you writing a novel? Or a short story? In a short story, you can get by with a single character. Someone…
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
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