This post is part of a series on Lester Dent’s method for writing a short story . You might think: Why should I care? Well, all the short st...

In previous posts  I’ve written about Lester Dent’s short story formula . Lester Dent was perhaps the best of the pulp-fiction writers of th...

The end goal of character creation, the Holy Grail, is for your reader to feel empathy for your character.  Jim Butcher writes: “...if you c...

This post continues my mini-series about how to introduce a character. I’ve already written about Exaggeration, Unusual Position and introdu...

Introductions are important.  Do you remember the first time you introduced your Significant Other to a parent? There are few things in life...

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...

Story Openings: Introducing a Main Character You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Today I want to talk about character ...

In a previous post, How to Write a Genre Story: Characters: An Introduction to Character Tags , I talked about why tags are important for ch...

I’ve already gone over Swain’s idea of a character’s dominant impression , now let’s talk about their dominant attitude. A character’s attit...