character development

Filling in the Cracks - Character Developments

Character Development Exercises – Filling In the Cracks

Last week, we started to plan out our story by developing a few tentpole scenes. This week, we’re going to tackle the filling or those little moments of character development that go between these moments. The following writing exercises will help you flesh out those characters you’ve created. In this part, we get to have […]

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Tips to Creating a Great Story Outline – Plotting a Character Arc with 5 Scenes

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NaNo Prep – Midpoint

Hello again aspiring authors! Last time, we looked at the Beginning and End of our story.  We knew how our character started and how the character ended up.  Hopefully with some characterization and change along the way. Before we dive into the next part, I just wanted to take a minute and say that a

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How I Write: Step 2 – The Characters

So this image has been turned over in my head. I’ve started to figure out some of the character aspects.

If there’s a character in my image, I need to know why (s)he is there. What brought that character here, what makes the character tick.

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