characters – Traci Ashbe Dark Fantasy Author

January 9, 2023

How Much Character Do You Put On? By Traci Kenworth

How Much Character Do You Put On? Traci Kenworth In the world of beauty, we’re always concerned about what we are or aren’t putting on our faces. The goal is to improve on them, of course. Just like, if you think about it, our characters in our stories. So, how much character do you put…

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May 4, 2021

Teen Topics: to the tune of Characters 5/4/2021 Traci Kenworth

Teen Topics: to the Tune of Characters 5/4/2021 Traci Kenworth Over the years, we can grow stagnant. In an effort to try a new spin on things for the future of the blog, I’m going to be trying to do something different. I want to focus less on being a blogger, more on being an…

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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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March 15, 2012

Tidbits of Who Your Characters are…

Tidbits of Who Your Characters are… Traci Kenworth How do you create a whole character? Tidbits, of course. By that, I mean there are facets of each of us that go into our story person. I would say that there is a sliver of our personalities in every one we write. Our shyness, our…

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March 1, 2012

How I get Myself Unstuck from a Scene…

How I get Myself Unstuck from a Scene Traci Kenworth I’ve come up against walls more than a few times when it comes to scenes. There’s a recent one when I needed a character to have certain powers—I just couldn’t figure out what those would be, so I procrastinated about it for days until…

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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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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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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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