character – Traci Ashbe Dark Fantasy Author

July 19, 2012

The Monster Show

The Monster Show Traci Kenworth Who didn’t go to a monster show at some point growing up? I remember sitting on the couch every Saturday when I was twelve or thirteen watching the local channel’s Scream Theater showing. Frankenstein’s monster, the she-devil, and BIG bugs reigned. Armed with a…

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October 13, 2011

Character Studies

Character Studies Traci Kenworth How useful are they? Even late in the game? Very. I find myself on the precipice of tearing apart my wip for the final round of edits before a send-off to agents. I still pull out my character charts because I know, that they help keep me on track on…

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September 8, 2011

When it’s Okay

When it’s Okay to be in Love with Your Writing & when it’s not Traci Kenworth Okay, so you just know you’ve written the one. You’re trembling with excitement, on fire with ambition, ready to shoot past the stars. Hold on there. Have you ran your brilliant creation past your critique groups and beta…

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June 23, 2011

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters Part VIII

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters Part VIII Endings: The All Important Stop Traci Kenworth Next to your beginning hook, your ending may very well be the most challenging to write. Readers want to be satisfied, to be carried through “the dream” they’ve been exposed to. And, no, I’m not saying here to…

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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…

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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 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…

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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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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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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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