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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Make Your Characters A Little Weak
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
Feline Freedom League March 2019
From: Agent Probie To: Mr. Whiskers Date: 3 March 2019 Subject: First Report of 2019 Things have begun disappearing. They are definitely moving dens. I’m not certain how much longer we will be able to report from this location. The…
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
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
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
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
Remove the Padding
And now a word about padding. That’s what I call adding words to make up a word count. It happens a lot. Sometimes it happens without you being aware of what you are doing. For example, in that first sentence,…
Tagged with: editing, fiction, filler words, Nonfiction, revising, unnecessary words, Write, writing
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
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