Tag: Character Development

• Does A Change In Seasons Change Your Writing Habits?

  Does a change in seasons bring changes in your writing habits? I’m voting yes on my ballot. As the daylight fades and it starts getting darker earlier, I find myself planted in my chair a little more, pecking away at my projects. But for me, it’s just because I’m an outside kind of person. I spend […]

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  October 9, 2019

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• Fool Me Once: Authors, Don’t Do This To Your Readers

  I’ve been duped. Duped I tell ya, duped. And I’m not happy about it. And you shouldn’t be either. I picked up a book by an author because of a couple of positive reviews it received. “I’ll give it a shot,” I said. “I’m always looking for new reads, and I’m always happy to find […]

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  August 23, 2019

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• Writers Are Always Working, Even When We’re Not

  Well, it’s been a bit, hasn’t it? With the writing I mean. Your WIP. More specifically, with my WIP, actually. All I can say is that life happens, you know? Family matters, when serious enough, must take precedence and get priority treatment, of course. Mix that in with the deadlines of the paying job, and before […]

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  July 16, 2019

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• A Word Is A Word, And It Counts

    Yep, that’s what I tell myself. A word is a word, no matter if it’s one of one or one of thousands. And it counts the same, so if you’re tight on time and you just jot down that first word of a chapter, paragraph or conversation, it’s one more word than you’ve had […]

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  May 10, 2019

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• Ideas During Sleep, ​Blank Stares While Awake

  We always hear about the constant need for a pen and paper nearby for those golden, light bulb ideas of brilliance that only show themselves when we are least expecting them. I always believed this to be the crazy notion until I was proved wrong. “Once again”, some might interject here. Blissfully awoken by an […]

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  April 8, 2019

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• Regaining Writing Momentum After The Holi-daze

  So that big push in November for writing more, especially if you participated in NaNoWriMo, led to a giant “sigh” in December, flowing right into the holidays, after which we skated into the new year. Before you knew it, you might not have written anything constructive for a couple of weeks. Sound familiar? I myself […]

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  January 18, 2019

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• Keep Your WIP Moving With Secrets And Motivation

    Keeping plot, action, and dialogue fresh can be a challenge. but Sol Stein can help you with that. Who is Sol Stein, you ask? He’s the writer of a great book on craft techniques and strategies, both fiction and nonfiction, and beyond. It’s titled, Stein On Writing. And why wouldn’t it be? He suggests to […]

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  December 7, 2018

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• Seasons Change, And So Do I…

  Well, here we are, back at that dreaded daylight savings time, or maybe a better name would be the daylight shifting time. Apparently it’s not enough that the sunlight naturally dwindles a bit each day now, because we feel theneed to manipulate our clocks to better match the lighting patterns of the sun. Shouldn’t we […]

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  October 23, 2018

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• What’s Your Why, And How Does It Affect Your Writing

  We hear the phrase a lot. What’s your why? Why are you choosing to do what you do? Specifically, why are you writing? So here’s your chance to explain yourself. What’s your why when it comes to your writing? I mean, you’ve got a reason for putting pen to paper, don’t you? Sure you do, […]

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  September 25, 2018

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• Fixing Boring Fictional Characters By Looking Into Their Real Lives

  There’s always a lot of discussion about characters in writing, as should be. I mean, without the characters, your story is just a long narrative on scenery and background. But hey, sometimes even with characters, your story is just a long narrative on scenery and background. And that sucks. But maybe your characters are just […]

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  August 27, 2018

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