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Tag: writing fiction
Make Music with Character Voices
Lynette M. Burrows discusses how to hook your readers by making your story character voices like the instruments in an orchestra.
The Blessing and Curse of Research and Inspiration
The more you practice creativity, the more you realize the blessing and curse of research and inspiration. Which is the blessing and which the curse? Read more.
Better Characters through Lies, Secrets, and Scars
This week I’m revisiting and improving a post I wrote in 2019. Lies, Secrets, and Scars Create Better Characters appears today on the Writers in the Storm Blog. You may remember this post but it’s been improved with examples. If you check it out on the WITS blog, please say hi. Lies, Secrets, and Scars… Continue reading Better Characters through Lies, Secrets, and Scars
Breathe Life Into Your Characters
Writers are told to breathe life into your characters. But how? Some how-to experts claim that to write believable characters you must fill out page after page identifying every mundane detail of their lives. Is it wrong to do so? No. Some writers may need tool to learn who their characters are. Unfortunately, many writers… Continue reading Breathe Life Into Your Characters