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Life Changes
Did you make any New Year’s resolutions this year? I didn’t. I resolved last year to never do that again. It puts too much pressure on a person to make New Year’s resolutions and stick to them. That’s why there…
Cleaning House
We all have those little tasks that we don’t like to do, and we do them because there is no one else who will do it. I can’t afford a house cleaning service, so I have to clean my house…
Positive Thinking
I’ve talked about the power of positive thinking before but I am going to talk about it again. That’s because I really believe that if you want to succeed at something, you have to start by believing that you can…
Compelling Characters
What makes a compelling character? The reader has to engage with the character. They have to have some flaws. No one is perfect and a character shouldn’t be either. Each character in a story should have a mix of good…
Tagged with: Character, characters, development, fiction, flaws, instincts, life, person, qualities, Scrivener, sheet, template, villain, writer
Posted in Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Time
Time is a human thing. We humans are obsessed with it. We are ruled by it, at least here in the United States, we are. It’s Big Business that does it. In our quest to make a living, we have…
Tagged with: animals, century, clocks, currency, danger, extinction, growth, human, hunter, life, Money, Mother Nature, person, population, possessions, Time
Posted in General Opinion
Posted in General Opinion
Winter
Winter is a cold time. It’s the season of snow and ice. The days are usually gray and dull. There’s little color. Some people like it. As you may have guessed, I really don’t. It’s not my favorite time of…
Know Your Character’s Family
You have family, whether they are people you talk to or not, they are your family. You also have friends, unless you are some kind of weird, really antisocial person. your characters should have family and friends too. You may…
Tagged with: advantages, Another, Character, characters, Child, children, data, death, descendant, descriptions, disadvantages, example, Family Group sheet, family tree, father, friends, generations, husband, instance, kids, Marriage, Mother, parents, person, purpose, relationships, Revisions, sheets, situation, spouse, spouses, tensions, writing
Posted in Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Techniques
A Word About Names
Names are important. They identify us and lets others find us in public records. That’s the heart of genealogy, or family history. Searching records, looking for your ancestors simply work better when you know the name. You would search for…
Tagged with: agent, ancestor, ancestors, Anglicize, blog, computer, contemporaries, convention, doctor, engine, estate, example, FOURNIER, Françoise, Frances, Frederick, Friedrich, genealogy, Hawaii, Hébert, heart, HENDRICKSON, History, indexes, January, language, layer, Lisa, Look, Madame, Mademoiselle, Michael, Michel, Minneapolis, New York, People, person, preference, records, springboard, surname, surnames, user, words
Posted in Family History, Hobbies
Posted in Family History, Hobbies
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