Day One
2,008 of 50,000 words The first day is usually the worst day for me. I might be saying that because this is the first day, and I spent a long time deciding what to write. Ask me again at day fifteen,...
View ArticleA Meeting of Two Birds and a Stone
Day 9: 11,355 of 50,000 words I suppose I should update about what I’ve decided to do about my little dilemma this month. It started out with a story that seemed to take a defined shape early. Good...
View ArticleLiving Multiple Realities
Reality is a subjective thing, especially to us writers. We see things multiple ways. We sit on an old stone bridge and look down at a length of pipe sunken to the bottom of an icy stream, and in a...
View ArticleGuest Post: Your character may be a mugger if…
Written by irowboat I was going to respond this comment from dawnstarpony, but it ran considerably long, and PartlyPixie made me turn it into a post. dawnstarpony asked: Do you consider character...
View ArticleDeveloping Characters Part One: Getting to know you
There's nothing better than a good character; the kind of person you wish you could dive into the pages and buy them a drink, just to spend more time with them. A good character can save the times a...
View ArticleDeveloping Characters Part Two: Conflict and Plot
For Part One of Developing Characters, go here. I'm sorry for the delay on part two, I've been learning a new Day Job and that's been a bit of a time suck. But anyway, now we have our characters, we...
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