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Showing posts with label character development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character development. Show all posts

Writing Letters: a Marvellous Way to Understand Characters

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As a child of the '90s, I'm no stranger to epistolary stories. They were everywhere when I was growing up: Jaclyn Moriar...

5 Ways to Improve a High Stakes Character Arc

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Writing a character arc with a high stakes goal is not for the faint of heart. Pushing characters to act in ways that are hopefull...

How to Unlock the Potential of Transportation in Fiction

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It’s funny to think that something as pedestrian as a character’s preferred mode of transportation could offer any inspiration or ...

The Art of Transmogrifying Character Notes

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It’s no secret that character development is one of my all-time favourite parts of writing a novel. I’m also all too aware of the ...

The Writing Secrets Hidden Within Mass Effect

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One of my favourite science fiction stories of all time is not a book or a movie or a TV show. It’s a video game trilogy by the na...

How to Add Characters to Your Writing Bullet Journal

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Bullet journalling can be both a tantalizing and an overwhelming prospect. You might love the idea of using it to store notes on...

Discover Your Character's VIPs

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This is the final post in a three-part series on creating a character from scratch. In this series, I cover one step per post, to ...

How to See and Hear a Character

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This is the second of three posts in a series on creating a character from scratch. In this series, I cover one step per post, to ...

How to Name a Character

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When creating a character from scratch, I often figure out three things right off the bat: Their name Their physicality, i...

Location, Location, Location! ... and Why It Matters to Your Character

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[This post is excerpted from my free workbook on character development! ] Just as there are people our characters’ lives would...