You’re a step ahead, writers, if you instinctively avoid these pitfalls when you introduce characters. I’ve stumbled into most of them. Showing or talking about several new characters in short order, say within a page. Even well-regarded novelists do this at times. Readers with heavy intellect might be able to peg and remember these people […]
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When I don’t know what to write next, whether the next action, solution for a character, or a brand new story, a word processing TABLE always helps. I find those empty cells a lot more stimulating than a blank sheet of paper. I type a word in the upper left-hand cell Character and try names
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It’s not necessary to have ingredients on hand to start writing a novel. Unlike scratch cooking, you concoct most everything that goes into it and make up the recipe as you go along. Planning my current story began with a brief image from a dream that I recorded in a notebook some time ago. The
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