Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author

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…

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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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May 9, 2011

Review: The Mockingjay

SPOILER ALERT: Let me just say that I loved this series by Suzanne Collins. The heroine, Katniss Everdeen, is likeable, spunky, someone to root for. Plus there are two boys in her life to keep you enthralled. The world is well built, downright scary to imagine and all the players fit well into it. I’ve…

Reading

Gale Hawthorne, Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Mockingjay, Peeta Mellark, President Snow, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games universe
May 2, 2011

Let Me Look in the Mirror Already!

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters Part II: Let Me See in the Mirror Already! A character’s looks. How important are they? Some say the less description the better, but I’ve read in an agent’s recent blog(and I concur)that the readers wants to know what your character looks like, warts and all.…

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Author, Blond, character, characters, fiction, Games, Hero System, Julia Roberts, Kenworth, Readers, Roleplaying, Safe House, Universal, Writer, writers, Writers Resources, Writing, Writing and Editing
April 26, 2011

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters Part 1: What is in a Name? Traci Kenworth How do you go about naming your characters? Do you just close your eyes, dip your finger onto the page, and choose that one? Or do you meticulously search for one? In any case, the one you end…

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characters, Cheyenne, Family, fantasy, fiction, Gabriel, God, Hero, Home, horror, Kenworth, keys, muse, supernatural, United States, Writer, writers, Writing, Writing and Editing, young adult, Young-adult fiction
April 19, 2011

Writer At Work

Writer At Work Traci Kenworth So what do our days really look like? Where do they take us? Well, for me, it begins after I get the kids off to school. About 7 a.m. if not sooner, I try to be at my computer. I do the email and boards thing first then settle…

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Arts, Author, Book, characters, Editing, fantasy, fiction, Genetic Engineering, horror, Kenworth, keys, muse, Plot (narrative), Readers, Reading, Revisions, supernatural, Writer, Writers Resources, Writing, Writing and Editing, yaff, Young-adult fiction
April 10, 2011

Last Update

Only had a few minutes to read this morning before Read-a-thon ended. I got to page 6 of Mockingjay. Here’s the blurb for it: Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Her family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capital. District 13 really…

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Gale Hawthorne, Hunger Games, Josh Hutcherson, Katniss Everdeen, Liam Hemsworth, Mockingjay, Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games universe
April 10, 2011

More Read-a-thon Answers

1. Which hour was most daunting for you? 13 2. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year? Suzanne Collin’s Mockingjay 3. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year? More mini-challenges perhaps? 4. What do you think worked really…

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