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Character Development – NaNoWriMo 2016 Prep
Imagine your character as a cube. The surfaces may have huge or subtle differences in color, form, brightness or darkness. A character possesses human traits and emotions, all on a continuum. These characteristics may be muted or amplified depending on era, setting and situation.
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Writerly Round-Up (26 May – 1 June)
Writers use red herrings the way magicians use sleight of hand—to distract their readers from seeing what’s really there. In this video tutorial, award-winning author Jane K. Cleland explains how to use red herrings to build page-turning suspense.
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Writerly Round-Up (19 – 25 May)
Dialogue: Abused and Misused by Joni M. Fisher Savvy Authors Blog People recognize terrible dialogue when they hear it in movies, or on television or read it in books. It comes off wooden, robotic, confusing, lecturing, boring or in some way artificial sounding. Examples abound in B-grade movies, comic books, soap operas, and probably in…
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