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71How To Create A Reliable Character?
When writing a story, whether it's a short story or a novel it is important to create reliable characters. If a reader can't understand why the characters do what they do, the author has got a serious...
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87How to Use Microsoft One Note to Organize Novel Notes
Acer Aspire One by Robert A. Sloan. Ink and watercolor in 5" x 8 1/2" Moleskine watercolor journal. Back in the day, novelists used typewriters. Sometimes they were portable and sleek, the one I had in high...
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75How to Start a Novel
Lewis Carroll may have been the one who said it. "Begin at the beginning, proceed through the middle until you reach the end. Then stop." That isn't how all writers work. Some writers do a lot better...
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62How to Name Characters
Fern, watercolor, 6" x 9" by Robert A. Sloan I just finished my first editing pass on The Necromancer's Tale, a light, sweet fantasy novel that isn't quite as silly as Diskworld or quite as grandly epic as...
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61How to Design a Main Character
A must read for making realistic characters. The Hero. The Heroine. The troubled/flawed/antisocial leader who must face his/her greatest/worst/toughest foe/adversary in order to save/rescue/cure his/her...
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60Create your own character: creating character profile tips
from Uzii Creating our very own characters for our webcomic or manga is the most important aspect of starting our own webcomic or manga. However how does one start to create your own character? This is...
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47Writersbeginnings
Sometimes it is so hard to sit down and begin that piece of writing. You either know you want to write something but don't have any idea what it should be You have an idea but don't know where you...
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48Beating Writer's Block
Writer’s block is something that all writers have to contend with at some time or other. It can be fleeting or prolonged, but however long it stays with us, it is frustrating and unnerving,...
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59Habits: How Would You Like Your Life to Change?
What is it that sets those who achieve extraordinary things apart from the rest of us? Some would tell you it's freak luck or even chance. Still others tell you that these chosen few had better connections...
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51Creating a Believable Character
Characters can make or break a story. As writers, we must create believable characters in our stories or children will not want to read what we've written. Here are some tips: 1. Believable The character must...
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