Some excellent writing tips
From Rick: This week I’m going to divert from my “Analyzing your story” series to give you s short list of some excellent writing tips I recently got from my local writer’s group. Before I get to that, I want
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Article links on two topics: IP and Characters
From Rick: Honestly, not for lack of ideas but for lack of time, I haven’t been as diligent lately in doing a blog on a weekly basis. Believe it or not, I often spend the better part of a day
Read moreThe importance of your character names
From Rick: I’m trying to un-busy myself enough to get back on schedule of posting weekly on Mondays instead skipping a week here and there or posting on Tuesday. We’ll see how that goes. ===== In the past I’ve talked
Read moreDealing with immortal characters in fiction
From Rick: Immortal characters can be interesting and challenging for a writer to deal with in fiction. Anytime a writer decides to put an immortal character into his fiction, a number of problems and challenges will confront him. The biggest
Read moreCreating dynamic characters
From Rick: A few weeks ago, I received an email from Martin Cavanaugh of Reedsy (a UK-based site) in response to the first post in my Book Cover Design-Series 2 (the link to that post is below). BOOK COVER DESIGN-SERIES
Read moreAdvice on naming characters and things in fiction
From Scott: For writers of science fiction and fantasy, a special challenge arises. Unless you have specifically set the milieu for your project on the Earth, in a set time and place, you will need to create a lot of
Read moreHow to create characters smarter than the author
From Rick: How can you design a character that is supposed to be smarter/more clever/more intelligent than the author? This question came up recently on the Forum at Silver Pen. (Readers of this blog readers who are not members of
Read moreYour cast of characters
From Rick: A few weeks back an author in one of the chat groups I belong to asked the question: How soon should you introduce your main character (MC)? The reason this author asked the question is that he apparently
Read moreNo post this week, but…
From Rick: Things got a bit busy this past weekend, so I didn’t have a chance to finish my blog post. Next week’s post will be about characters: Thoughts on when/how soon to introduce your main character and some comments
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