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I usually don’t blog on this day, but I had to break tradition. I’ve been on the look out for new books on writing fight scenes. For a long time now, there have only two of them: Writing Fight Scenes by Rayne Hall and Write The Fight Right by Alan Baxter. I just read at Book View…
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…
You want to tell your story from 4, 5 or 6 different characters. Maybe even more. This will be a headache, especially if you’re going with “even more.” Prepare for it. My current work-in-progress wants to be told from 11 different perspectives. It’s been a nightmare. The main issue with multiple perspectives is if…
We open a vein and pour our blood into our stories. Not something we can help. If we don’t put everything in it, the story won’t possess readers. This is all, slightly, romantic and all, but there’s a down-side. We can become defensive to criticism. My book has gone through beta readers, my publisher, an…
How do you decided whether to use narrative or dialogue? When I got my manuscript back from the editor, one of the problems she had with a section was that she didn’t understand who the people were. It was a total information dump. It had been an internal monologue. So, to make it more understandable,…
One of my favorite parts of crafting a story is writing dialogue. I read somewhere that to be great at writing dialogue, you need to be good a talking to people. This bothered me. I mean, I’m an introvert. I can talk to people but I’m much better at writing. You don’t need the gift…
As you know, I pull a lot of inspiration for my stories from anime, especially powers, character features and weapons. Now, it’s time for anime weapons. I don’t simply mean how they operate. I mean how they look. Anime has some of the most creative-looking weapons and they usually have names and personalities. 1. Scythe Scythes in…
How do you curse people out without swearing? Remember the song from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” That’s how you do it. In my series, I wrote characters who found creative ways to insult people. Only, I had no idea what they’d say. I spent hours combing different Thesauruses and couldn’t help laughing when I…
As if naming our characters wasn’t hard enough. On top of that, we have to name lands, buildings, foods, cultures, mountains even treaties and wars. The list goes on and on. Here’s your guide on how to name a fantasy world. 1. Pay attention to everything around you. You may come across a perfect name in a restaurant sign…
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…
