Traci Ashbe Dark Fantasy Author

June 16, 2011

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters VII

How to Breathe Life Into Your Characters VII Dumpy Middles We’ve all been there. The wondering if you’re on the right course, if you should pack up your manuscript in a drawer and forget it, or so on. This usually happens around the middle of your novel. You’re losing steam from the exciting beginning…

writers, Writing and Poetry

Art, Dean Koontz, fiction, Narrative mode, Online Writing, Stephen King, Writers Resources, Writing
June 14, 2011

Eek, The Answer to Where I’d Go During Zombie Apocalypse

Eeek…The Answer to Where I’d Go During a Zombie Apocalypse(and Other Little Horrors) Traci Kenworth Okay, so me and the ladies we’re talking a bit about what we’d do if zombies suddenly occupied the streets. For me, living out in Amish country, I’d be a little late to the news. And I couldn’t rely…

humor & fun, Reading, writers, Writing and Poetry

Arts, Carrie Ryan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, horror, Radio, Religion and Spirituality, supernatural, young adult, Young-adult fiction, Zombie, Zombie apocalypse, Zombieland
June 7, 2011

How to Choose Which Genre…

Choosing the Genre in Which to Write Traci Kenworth I’m going to divert from “How to Breathe Life into Your Characters” this week to discuss what genre you should think of putting your book in. There’s so many to choose from, and different shades of each. You have your Science Fiction-Fantasy that breaks up…

Reading, writers, Writing and Poetry

Arts, character, characters, Dean Koontz, fiction, horror, J.N. Williamson, Ray Bradbury, Science fiction, Stephen King, supernatural, Writer, writers, Writers Resources, Writing and Editing, young adult, Young-adult fiction
May 31, 2011

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters VI

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters VI Introductions The way you bring your hero/heroine onto the page is important. Some say to start with a big bang, but that doesn’t allow your character enough time for the reader to come to identify with him/her. You want to begin with the inciting incident, for…

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Art, character, characters, City of Bones, fiction, Hunger Games, Kenworth, Mary, Narrative mode, Roleplaying, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Writer, writers, Writers Resources, Writing, Writing and Editing, young adult, Young-adult fiction
May 25, 2011

The Gaming Hall

Photo credit jppi from morguefile. The Gaming Hall Traci Kenworth I wasn’t supposed to be in here, to see what went on, but hey, when your sixteen rules are meant to be broken. Especially when it may attract attention from parents who act like you don’t exist anymore since the divorce. Not that…

Reading, Writing and Poetry

fantasy, fiction, horror, Kenworth, muse, muse blog, Readers, Reading, short stories, short story, supernatural, yaff, young adult, Young-adult fiction
May 24, 2011

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters Part V

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters V First versus Second versus Third This is where we get into narrative mode or First, Second, or Third person. For years I tried unsuccessfully to write in Third person. I had come to the writing table thinking it the “easiest” version to tackle. But it was…

writers, Writing and Poetry

Arts, character, First-person narrative, Grammatical person, Harry Potter, Narrative mode, Omni, Third-person limited narrative
May 17, 2011

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters Par IV

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters IV Choosing Viewpoint Okay, now we get down into whose “eyes” the story is told through. It should be the character with the most to lose. Is it Little Boy Blue hiding under the haystack? The Big Bad Wolf? Or Esmeralda? Sure, the villain has a lot…

Reading, writers, Writing and Poetry

Author, Big Bad Wolf, Book, character, characters, City of Bones, fiction, Hero, Jay Asher, Katniss Everdeen, Kenworth, keys, Writer, writers, Writing, young adult, Young-adult fiction
May 11, 2011

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May 10, 2011

How to Breath Life into Your Characters III

How to Breathe Life in Your Characters Part III Background Info. Now that you’ve gotten your characters’ names figured out as well as their descriptions, it’s time to move onto their backgrounds. For example, who are their parents? Where did they grow up, when is their birthday? The more detail you can put into…

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Akara, character, characters, Kenworth, keys, Protagonist, Writer, writers, Writers Resources, Writing, Writing and Editing
May 9, 2011

Review: The Mockingjay

Review: The Mockingjay.

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