The setting can set the tone of the story, but the tone must match the action. A Gothic horror story rarely takes place in a one-bedroom stone cottage by the sea. That’s not to say it couldn’t, but it would…
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A Word About Setting
Setting is an important part of any story of any length. Stories involve action and action needs some place to happen. That’s the setting. Setting has to involve more than just one sense. There may not be a breeze in…
Tagged with: action and setting, setting, writing, writing setting, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
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,…
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
Characters at Work
As authors, we want people to believe our characters are real. OK, not so much, but we do want them to be believable as people. People have jobs or careers. Our characters need jobs and careers as well. In life,…
Tagged with: chacters, character career, character development, character job, characters, characters working, writing, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, 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
Some tips on Dialog
Good dialog is often hard to write. For one thing, people speak differently than they write. We are encouraged to use full sentences when we write, but we often use fragments when we speak. When is the last time you…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
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