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How to Breath Life into Your Characters III
How to Breathe Life in Your Characters Part III Background Info. Now that you’ve gotten your characters’ names figured out as well as their descriptions, it’s time to move onto their backgrounds. For example, who are their parents? Where did they grow up, when is their birthday? The more detail you can put into…
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How to Breathe Life into Your Characters
How to Breathe Life into Your Characters Part 1: What is in a Name? Traci Kenworth How do you go about naming your characters? Do you just close your eyes, dip your finger onto the page, and choose that one? Or do you meticulously search for one? In any case, the one you end…
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Why it’s Okay to Cry(alongside your characters)
Why it’s Okay to Cry(along with your Fictional Characters) Traci Kenworth Sometimes I admit it, when I get caught up in a scene: a goodbye, a successful rescue, a happy ending, tears rolls down my cheeks. We’ve all heard of how readers take our characters to heart but do writers do the same? Absolutely. I…
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The Key to Writing Horror
The Key to Writing Horror.