BIRTH ORDER AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: Firstborn by Gwen M. Plano
Gwen has a new posting in her series on writing.
Continue ReadingGwen has a new posting in her series on writing.
Continue ReadingAgency and Character Development #amwriting Read here …
Continue Reading#NaNoPrep101: Building Characters If you have been following this series, you know that I rely heavily on a storyboard. If you are curious how I create this thing, you can find the first post here: #NaNoPrep: part 1: What’s the Story? But don’t worry. The list of articles in this series is included at the bottom […]
Continue ReadingCharacter Development: Narrative Time Last week, we discussed how the descriptive narrative of a story is comprised of three aspects: Narrative point of view is the perspective, a personal or impersonal “lens” through which a story is communicated. Narrative time is the grammatical placement of the story’s time frame in the past or the present, i.e., present tense (we go) […]
Continue ReadingStoryboarding character development #amwriting Every year, I participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). This happens in November and is thirty days of dedicated writing. Authors with an idea for a novel sit down and daily write at least 1,667 words of a first draft. This month of concentrated writing time is meant to help […]
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