Fiction filler is like fillers in food. It makes a little bit of good stuff go a lot farther, but at what cost? How much of this pink slime prose can we really get away with before readers feel ill?
Category: Writing Tips
Apr 05 2022
Memory: Shape Characters & Sharpen Conflict
Memory is what makes paper-doll characters come to life. Too many new writers stop at surface description.
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Mar 10 2022
Arc: How Characters Grow and Change Organically
Some people, when crisis hits, don’t, can’t or won’t change. Often these people die. At the least, they can put everyone around them in danger.
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Mar 04 2022
Personality Traits: Creating Dimensional Characters
Personality traits make for not only a fascinating study, but have continued to be at the heart of spirited debate since probably the dawn of time.
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Dec 10 2021
Talk is Cheap: Harness the True Power of Dialogue
We can use ‘talk’ to inform, disrupt, distract, enlighten, or even misdirect. Thus, today, I’d like for us to explore the purpose of dialogue.
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