Creating dynamic, multi-layered and believable characters in not easy. But oh so important. Blake Snyder, author of Save the Cat, says a story is, at some level always “a story about a guy who”. The plot is important, but at its core the story is about a character, a person [...]
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20
May
When I was going through some old papers and came across a list of writing books (Fiction is Folks), I also found a page of my character studies. These were short character descriptions I used to write on the long bus rides around Vancouver B.C. when I was a university student. There were lots of [...]
18
May
My apologies for getting here late today. I had two meetings with teachers yesterday about my final assignments for my final master’s degree classes and my brain is FULL! LOL! On the other hand, those meetings and my homework gave me ideas for what to write to you today. I am juggling three different stories [...]
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