fiction – Page 8 – Traci Ashbe Dark Fantasy Author

July 7, 2011

Settings for Horror

Settings for Horror Traci Kenworth Settings for horror can happen anywhere. From basements to dining rooms, outdoors to in, present day to long ago. But you’re main concern here is what evokes terror for you? I’m talking: heart-pumping, sick to your stomach, ready to crawl through a narrow pipe to escape fear. It has…

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June 30, 2011

How to Place Your Characters

How to Place Your Characters Introductions Traci Kenworth So you’ve come up with the great idea and it’s burning a hole through your gut, just aching to be written. How do you know where to begin? Should it be with Grandpa Sneitzler? The maid? The boy down on the dairy farm? Who to pick?…

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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 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…

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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 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…

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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 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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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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