All of us will feel a NEED to explain why a character is moody, angry, broken, bawdy, whatever. DON’T. Resist the urge to EXPLAIN. In fact, if readers don’t know WHY, they will want to turn pages to find out WHY.
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Jun 11 2015
Deep P.O.V. Part Two—Crawling Inside Your Characters
Yes, there are style changes we can make, like removing as many tags as we can and ditching sensing and thinking words. But deep POV is strongly tethered to characterization. Good characterization.
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Jun 09 2015
Deep P.O.V. Part One—What IS It? How Do We DO It?
Everyone wants it. Readers love it. Uh, but what IS it? How do I do it? Can I order some on-line?
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Jun 05 2015
You Might Be a Writer If…
A lot of “stuff” has been going on in my life lately. Hard stuff. Heavy stuff. The kind of stuff that just makes me want to write massacre scenes….except I am so brain dead I had to google how to spell “massacre.” Masicker? Missucker? WHAT AM I DOING???? *breaks down sobbing* I am supposed to …
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Jun 03 2015
Brave New Bullying—How to Protect Yourself from Cyberbullying
I’ve talked before about how I train in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Recently, I have started assisting with teaching the kid’s class. It is shocking how much time we devote to training kids to stand up to bullies. Bullies, in my opinion, are among the lowest known existing lifeforms. I wouldn’t want to insult cockroaches …
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