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Writing Wednesday – Nobody’s Perfect

04 Thursday Sep 2014

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Last Week’s WW: Three Rules for Series

This is true in life and in writing.  People don’t want to watch perfect characters.  They want to see their flaws.  Yes, readers want to love your protagonist.  But it’s also okay if they hate them, for the right reasons.  You can have a protagonist that no one likes, personally, but still find compelling enough to root for.    Continue reading →

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Writing Wednesday – Getting in Their Heads

21 Thursday Aug 2014

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Last WW: Feel Free to Be Free

There are a lot of different point of views that one can take when writing a story.  First Person, the less popular Second Person, and all the types of Third Person: Omniscient, Limited, and Multiple.

Different POVs are applicable and best for different situations.  But, as limited as you may want to make the point of view in your story, you still have to explain a characters actions, of people will be confused.  The last thing that you want is for the reader to be sitting around thinking:

Huh?  That seems odd and unnatural.  I can’t figure this character out at all.  Now I’m frustrated and done reading.

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Writing Wednesday – Story vs Story Telling

29 Thursday May 2014

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Last Week’s WW: ESD: Extra-Sensory Descrption

Here is one of my deepest fears concerning writing:

The premise of the story is great.
The writing is top of it’s game, or at least, the best I can do.
The character’s are written consistently.
And yet… the book is awful.

It’s an idea that I’ve been thinking about for some time.  And, while all writer’s seem to think that their work is simultaneously the best and worst thing ever written, I have to imagine, it’s possible.

This is where we find another element of writing.  Delivery.

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Writing Wednesday – Hook, Line, and Sinker

15 Thursday May 2014

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For a moment, when he heard the cries from his daughter’s room, he smiled, forgetting that she had died almost five years ago.

With any luck, that sentence intrigues you.  It’s meant to catch your attention.  The first line of any story should do this.   But it’s more than that. Continue reading →

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Writing Wednesday – What’s it about?

02 Wednesday Apr 2014

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Last Week’s WW: Keep it Tight

If you tell someone that you’re writing a story, the most frequent question you’ll receive is: What’s it about?  Sometimes, even though you’re writing the thing, that’s not the easiest question to answer.  After all, there are so many ways to answer it.

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Writing Wednesday – The Life and Death of a Character

12 Wednesday Mar 2014

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Last Week’s WW – Description

There’s something disturbingly gratifying about killing off a character.  Whenever I do it, I get this sense of sad and satisfaction.  Strange as it may sound, I think that it’s evidence that I did a  good job crafting the character.   Continue reading →

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Writing Wednesday – To Be, or Not To Be… Original

05 Wednesday Feb 2014

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Last week’s WW: Be Not Afraid

That is the question.  The answer is simple:  Of course!

But is it really that easy?

Genres

What is a genre, if not using an existing idea to write something that fits within it?  I don’t think that anyone would argue that writing in an existing genre automatically makes a story unoriginal.  But where do we draw the line?  Want to write scifi, ok.  Want to write about scifi nanites, ok.  Want to write about scifi nanites in a post-apocalypic world, probably still ok.  How about nanites in a post-apocalypic, technologically advaced scifi world?  I sure hope that’s alright, cause I’m doing that now.  How specific must an idea get before it becomes a take-off of something else?   Continue reading →

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