Today I continue my series on how to create a memorable character.  In my last post ( How to Write a Genre Story: Character Introduction: Ex...

 Supporting Characters versus Main Characters We want some characters to be one-dimensional, characters such as the impatient pizza delivery...

“ What the creator of character needs is not so much knowledge of motives as keen sensibility; the dramatist need not understand people...

I read one of my old short stories yesterday. It’s one of my favorites but it’s far from my best. At the time I wrote it I knew a little...

Today I continue writing about science fiction and fantasy author Michael Moorcock and his guidelines for writing a 45,000 to 60,000 wo...

Every day I complete a writing exercise to help stretch my writing muscles. Lately, I've been thinking about sharing these exercis...

It is often said that characters are the raw material from which stories are created--and I couldn't agree more--but let's exam...

Have you ever had trouble telling two characters apart? Either in your own work or others? I know I have, which is why I was thrilled to f...

Deborah Chester, in her latest blog post, " Writing with Flair " argues that we should not attempt to make our characters true...

One of my favorite books on writing is Dwight V. Swain's Techniques of the Selling Writer because there he discusses, in depth, how ...