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Multiple Personalities
I feel like some books have schizophrenia. Too many stories to follow, meaning you are in at least 4 to sometimes 8 peoples heads. Who’s story is this? Has anyone else heard the rule no more then 3...
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Did You Mean to Have A Personality Disorder?
Voice (and I don’t mean speech) can make or break who your character is as a person. If you use the wrong word your character just went from strong independent woman to withering damsel in distress....
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What Makes a Likable Character?
Depending on genre “likable” can be very subjective. In the romance genres there are some basics. Men need to always be as close to an alpha as possible and still have a sensitive side. Yeah. I...
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Character Development – Writing a Memorable Character
Recently some stories out there have made me think about the characters. Which ones have left me thinking of them for years, or which characters can I not even name. Hate then or love them you can’t...
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Drawing You in from the Start
I think I have characters on my mind. Why? Well because I am running into a slump. I think my current manuscript has some really great points but it is lacking. What it is lacking I don’t know....
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Writing with Multiple POV’s
So now we know how many different POV’s we are using. If you don’t, go see my previous posts: Multiple Personalities and Did you mean to have a personality disorder. But, assuming you do the odds are...
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Is Dialogue Really that Hard?
Periodically posts pop up, tweets are sent out, or an agent gives a blurb at a conference on dialogue. They all reiterate similar rules but then add a different spin. The one theme is that, most people...
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Are You Character Driven or Plot Driven?
A character driven story is a story in which the character is what drives the plot to move. Anne of Green Gables, Twilight, and Rachel Gibson novels are character driven. In these cases the stories...
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Fun Fact Friday -2013 Trends
Welcome to the new year. What does a new year mean? New beginnings, new resolutions, and new stories of course. I don’t really believe in resolutions any more – that’s coming out of the mouth of...
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The Inciting Incident: Is Your Character Unlikable or What Are You Missing?
Don’t you hate criticism that leads you to a lot of head scratching, but little to no idea how to fix the issue? I had a beta reader – yes just one, tell me my character was nearly unlikable. I sort...
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