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Intro As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an artist along with a writer, and being able to do my own artwork has proven to be a very useful—and fun—skill to have, especially when paired with my writing. I’m fortunate enough to have an advantage that a lot of writers don’t have, as I don’t necessarily have…
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Intro Unless you’re writing something that takes place in the real world, with absolutely no made-up locations added to it, you’re going to have to do a bit of worldbuilding. Whether your story’s set in the modern world in a made-up town, or on a totally different planet, it’s important to have at least a…
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Intro I’m just going to go right out and say that I love writing action scenes. Whether they’re fight scenes, chase scenes, or anything in between, they’ve always been one of my favorite things to write. They pretty much guarantee excitement and also often serve as a great place to show how characters act under…
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Intro One of the most common writing questions I see online is how to write a character who is a different gender from you—especially a main character. And I think it’s great that people are trying to be more conscious and respectful when it comes to writing characters who aren’t the same gender as them,…
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Intro If you’re a writer on social media, you’ve probably seen all sorts of accounts posting writing advice pretty much daily, telling you the many dos and don’ts of this particular creative pursuit. Most of these are pretty common, repeated over and over again by multiple different accounts, but others are less so. Today, I’m…
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Writing good dialogue is one of the most important things that fiction writers have to know how to do, at least in my opinion. Not only is dialogue one of—if not the—best way to give the reader information about the plot, world, and characters, but it’s also a lot of what makes the characters feel…
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Intro There’s lots of writing software out there, some free, some paid for, and some that are somewhere in between. Some are packed with a million different features that can help you super customize your workflow and let you have everything you need all in one place, while others are more simple and less finicky,…
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Intro As I mentioned in last month’s How I Create My Characters post, the name is usually one of the first things I come up with when I make a new character. I come up with the basic character concept and personality that I’m going for, and then I either find or make up a…
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Intro Characters are the reason why I write. I come up with an awesome character and want to tell their story, and then the rest of the process starts from there. It always starts with the characters. Obviously, not every fiction writer starts their process like this, but that’s how it’s always been for me,…
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Intro Happy March, and welcome to this month’s writing post! This time, I’m going to be talking about my personal writing process. And I’ll emphasize the my personal part, too; everyone works differently, and this is one of those things where there really is no one-size-fits-all method. So, if you’re here hoping to get ideas…
