Writers Resources – Page 7 – Traci Ashbe Dark Fantasy Author

July 21, 2011

My Writing Style

My Writing Style Traci Kenworth This is something I see discussed a lot by other writers: what their style is when it comes to their writing. Finding it. Embracing it. Expanding on it. To be honest, it’s not something I concentrate on. I’m afraid I’ll mess things up too much if I tinker with…

a bit of seriousness, writers, Writing and Poetry

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July 14, 2011

An Interview with Rebekah L. Purdy

An Interview with Rebekah L. Purdy Traci Kenworth Today I have with me a special guest, one of the ladies of YoungAdultFictionFanatics (YAFF), a good friend of mine, and one of my favorite writers: Rebekah L. Purdy. I can’t say enough about how much I admire her. She has been an inspiration and…

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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 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…

Reading, writers, Writing and Poetry

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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 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…

Writing and Poetry

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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 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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