Creating Sympathetic Characters, Part I I am working on characters in my VNovel. Apparently, I Continue Reading
December 9, 2009
Separate POV chapters
More Than One POV? Split to Revise My current draft of my WIP novel has two point of view Continue Reading
October 8, 2009
Character prompts
Random Prompts for Character Development Last year, I bought Natalie Goldberg's book, Old Friend Continue Reading
October 2, 2009
Character and Plot
I've been working on my plot this week - which means I've been working on character. I've been Continue Reading
September 17, 2009
character development
4 Stages of Character Development When you write a first draft, there are really two novels at Continue Reading
August 20, 2009
boring characters in novels
I'm worried. :-/ Are my characters boring? One-Note Characters One common difficulty is to Continue Reading
August 11, 2009
motivation
Answering the WHY? question It's the WHY question that is plaguing me right now. Why does my Continue Reading
July 31, 2009
Supporting characters
Make supporting characters interesting Wednesday, I went to north central Arkansas to teach a Continue Reading
July 28, 2009
Motivations
Why did he do that? I have a full draft of a new novel and am starting on a revision. I think Continue Reading
July 23, 2009
blood thirsty
Charlotte was Blood-Thirsty: Character Paradoxes Charlotte, from E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Continue Reading