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Sunday, April 18
How to Write a Genre Story: Character Introduction: Empathy
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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...
Monday, April 12
How to Write a Genre Story: Character Introduction: Verisimilitude
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This post continues my mini-series about how to introduce a character. I’ve already written about Exaggeration, Unusual Position and introdu...
Saturday, April 10
How to Write a Genre Story: Character Introduction: Characteristic Entry Action
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Introductions are important. Do you remember the first time you introduced your Significant Other to a parent? There are few things in life...
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Tuesday, April 6
How to Write a Genre Story: Character Introduction: Unusual Position
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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...
Friday, April 2
How to Write a Genre Story: Character Introduction: Exaggeration
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Story Openings: Introducing a Main Character You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Today I want to talk about character ...
Monday, March 29
How to Write a Genre Story: Make Your Character Memorable & Unique: Tags
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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...
Thursday, March 25
How to Write a Genre Story: A Character's Dominant Attitude
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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...
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Monday, March 22
How to Write a Genre Story: Dwight V. Swain and the Dominant Impression
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"A tag is a label, but a limited, specialized label. It identifies a character and helps your readers distinguish one story person fr...
Thursday, March 18
How to Write a Genre Story: Characters: An Introduction to Character Tags
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Let’s talk about character tags. In a later post I’ll talk more about how Dwight V. Swain and others thought of tags and traits. In this po...
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