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For a character to be truly great you need to understand their motivations, their reactions, their place in the world and how they behave within this world, and also how that world responds around them. So here are my hints for creating a wonderful, enlivening and engaging character.
Read MoreI’ve been writing books… well stories… OK trying to finish writing stories since I was nine years old. I’m now just shy of 42… I won’t say how shy, but that’s a nice round number. I also say trying to finish because I find the starting of the process the easiest part, the middle can be a bit of a muddle and getting all the way to the end… that’s the pickle really.
Read MoreFor as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to write. Or read. That’s all I’ve wanted to do. I even told my second grade teacher I wanted to be ‘a poet’ when she was asking all the kids what they wanted to do when they ‘grew up’.
Read MoreThis is one of my favourite stories of an inadvertent life fail. Now you may be wondering, correctly, how does a writer fail a literature class. Well, I can tell you it wasn’t some Einsteinian moment where our ‘hero’ fails on the path they are destined to follow early on and then goes on to triumph.
Read MoreA lot has been written by writers and for writers about procrastination, possibly because the authors of such things were procrastinating themselves. Procrastinating is like eating something you know you shouldn’t because you’re on a diet.
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