Tag: Narrative mode

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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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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Tag: Narrative mode

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters VII

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters VI

How to Breathe Life into Your Characters Part V