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Create Fantastic Characters for the NaNoWriMo Challenge
Are you taking the NaNoWriMo challenge? Then you need to have good characters – and we can help.
Why Characters Matter So Much
Characters make every story worth reading. Without characters, your readers can’t relate to anyone and you can’t create a mental bond to draw people into your world for a time. Your beautiful settings fall [...]
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Getting Distance or Going All the Way
This post is an expansion on a one I wrote during discussion over at our creative writing role-playing game, Escaping Reality. Feel free to drop by the game boards.
Writing fiction can be an amazing adventure and a fantastic release from real life. But characters can also create chaos in your life. They’re creatures from your [...]
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Finding Your Ideal Reader
There comes a time in every writer’s life when the words poured onto pages from the heart are ready for the public.
Alright, maybe not the whole public, but a private kind of public. Stephen King refers to this in On Writing, and he mentions it as finally opening up the office door to let the [...]
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Capture the Fantasy and Escape your Reality
Do you want a place to play after a long day at work? Are you looking for a site that lets you release your wild imagination? Would you like to interact with others, use your creative writing talents and improve your fiction skills, dialogue, and quick thinking to be a better writer?
We have what you [...]
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Why We Do the Things We Do
When we released the launch date of our new creative writing role-playing game, the response was fantastic. People were excited, everyone wanted in, and the requests for character sheets kept coming.
Some people asked us why we did this – that’s a question deserving an answer.
Lovin’ the Fun
We love role-playing. It’s been a large part of [...]
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Fiction Writing: It Was A Dark and Bloggy Night
Just when I thought I might give up on my feed reader, this little gem of a meme poked its head out. Not only was the post a fun read, but it also looked like an excellent exercise in writing fiction.
I don’t do link love often, mainly because James always beats me to it. So [...]
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Are You Ready to Indulge Yourself?
We’ve been busy, very busy.
Behind the scenes of our daily life, we plot and connive, exploring millions of ideas running through our heads. Like Jekyll and Hyde (or Luke Skywalker and Han Solo), we’ve worked night and day, whispering in hushed tones while we tweak our secret to perfection, gleefully enjoying ourselves as we build [...]
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Fiction Writing: Conflicts and Characters
Almost all good stories need conflict – and not the epic battle-style of conflict. The conflicts that bring characters alive are the smaller conflicts that occur between two people, a small group and the internal conflicts we deal with on a daily basis.
Conflict adds an incredible amount of depth to characters. Without conflict, a character [...]
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Fiction Writing: What’s Your Point of View?
Over the past few weeks in our Fiction Writing series, we’ve covered a lot about characters but very little about the actual nuts and bolts of writing.
I’m not a technical kind of guy when it comes to writing. I know what sounds good, I know what looks good and I understand how to write a [...]
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Fiction Writing: Overactive Imagination
Throughout childhood, I remember that my imagination was often the topic of conversation. Sometimes it was complimented, sometimes it was the subject of looks that made me think, “What? What did I do?”
“You’re crazy,” my friends from high school used to say. They laughed when I tried the impossible or told them some of my [...]
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