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Revising in the Home Stretch
Revising in the Home Stretch I know what method of working has made the first 2/3 of my mss better. I’m just getting tired. Don’t get Lazy Now! I’m on the last third. I know that I must rewrite a major scene for a subplot/secondary character climax. But much of these later chapter are in…
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boring characters in novels
I’m worried. :-/ Are my characters boring? One-Note Characters One common difficulty is to create characters with a wide range of emotions. Yes, your character may be chronically sad or mad; but
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Supporting characters
Make supporting characters interesting Wednesday, I went to north central Arkansas to teach a professional development class and on the way up, I listened to an audio version of T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton, the 20th Kinsey Millhone mystery. At one point the detective calls a college to do a background check on…
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Improving Character Description With Body Language
Characters Who Move According to Mehrabian, 55% of communication depends on body language, 38% on tone-of-voice, and 7% on the words used. That’s bad news for novelists because we don’t have direct access to the body language as we work with our fictional characters – they are just words on a page. Adding body language…