Category: character
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Epic Characters: How to Create Them
Creating characters for your story may be the hardest part of writing. But it’s the most important. Infographic from the blog Something Delicious: A Creative Catalyst for the Writer’s Soul
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Friday’s Findings
One of my former co-workers has more free time because he is quarantined at home. For the past few years, he has been telling me about the fantasy novel he’s been working no, but with his job and family, he hadn’t had much time to work on it. Now he’s been catching up on his…
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Friday’s Findings
Sometimes I find myself using the same gestures for my characters over and under and over again. I think I’m guilty of making them “furrow their eyebrows” a lot. While the gestures and body language suggestions from the first item in today’s list is not exhaustive, it can give you ideas for your own variety…
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Friday’s Findings
Semicolons. I think of them as the yellow on a traffic stoplight. But I admit it. I love using the semicolon. When I write a rough draft, I indulge my semicolon addiction, but when I self-edit, I have to rewrite most of the sentences where I use them. They are like spice; I use them…
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Friday’s Findings
While being at home this week, I took a Udemy.com course called How to Plan and Outline Novels (Using Scrivener). I loved the simplicity of how the instructor, novelist Sean Platt, broke down the novel writing process. And I got a lot of great ideas for using Scrivener. The course is only about two hours…
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Friday's Findings
I always think of my first draft as a lump of clay I’ve been working on for only a few minutes. It’s wet and soggy and unpainted, but I know it’s unfinished and the best is yet to come. Why Your First Draft Isn’t Crap Stop Killing Your Creative Genius How a Career Can Reveal…
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Wooden Characters
The best thing you can do when creating a character is give them a flaw. Here are some more tips on avoiding wooden characters. Photo by Magda Ehlers from Pexels
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Friday’s Findings
I’ve been the victim of a writing group troll. I didn’t even want to read my rough draft. Then he proceeded to tear it apart. I understood why there was another writing group that had broken off from his and why they didn’t include him. I wish I hadn’t let it discourage me. But that…
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5 Characters Who Should Be in Your Story
Take a look at your story and see if you have the following … Featured in the Structuring Your Novel Workbook. Photo by Isabella Mariana from Pexels
Andrew M. Friday 