A career molds how a character views the world. For instance, writers see stories in everything. I use job and career interchangeably because, in my series, the word career doesn’t exist. In The Sciell, I didn’t have to worry about careers. The characters lived in a small community. They didn’t have any career aspirations. Most…
You might’ve come across a book with some out of the box metaphors and similes. I’m currently reading The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan. This book makes me so happy. The characters’ voices are kinda badass. I can’t help highlighting lines. “Ringil manufactured a smile of his own- it felt like an obscenity as it…
Along the lines of multiple perspectives- how do you keep several distinct voices in your head? How can one author manage to write a story with multiple voices? Even if you have only 3 or 4 POV characters, you’re novel could still have a large cast. Each of those characters needs their own voice? The first…
How do you make sure your characters don’t all sound the same? If you think about it logically, it shouldn’t be possible. I mean, we are just one person. There’s a name for people with a crowd of voices in their head. How can one person pretend to be several and portray each character realistically? I’ve been struggling…
