Showing posts with label Cemetery of the Nameless. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cemetery of the Nameless. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

The art of the interview

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By Rick Blechta        I’m currently involved in a non-fiction book project. No, I’m not writing the book, although I’m on tap to either do ...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Falling in love with characters

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by Rick Blechta It’s a fact of life that we writers must find a connection with our characters in order to write effectively. Basical...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Walking the fine line between “flawed” and “annoying”

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By Rick Blechta If you haven’t read Tom’s excellent post from yesterday, you might want to drop down below this post to check it out. It b...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Where is your favourite place to read/write in summer?

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by Rick Blechta The weather here in Toronto is slowly turning nice. We’ve had/endured/enjoyed what I have been calling a “slow spring” in...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

The joys of research

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I’m at sixes and sevens over what to write today for my weekly posting. When I wrote that first sentence, I realized that this was a phras...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

One way to have some fun with character names

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by Rick Blechta I’m one of those fiction writers who struggles with coming up with good character names, or should I say, I used to be ...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

More thoughts on “backstory”

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If you haven’t read Frankie’s post from this past Friday ( Finding the Backstory ), I suggest you do so now. It very clearly lays out why th...
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