Friday, May 31, 2019

Characters and Their Lives

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I'm finally coming up for air after spending the week racing ahead of a deadline. I've been thinking about the questions about chara...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

My Take on Character

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All right, I (Donis) am so far behind in both work and daily life that it isn't funny, but I have to weigh in on the character ques...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Character mashups

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In the past week on Type M, characters seem to have marched onto centre stage. There have been posts about creating them, describing them, ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

How's this for an interesting idea?

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by Rick Blechta How’s this for an interesting idea? I just had an intriguing thought based on recent posts by Aline and Thomas . But ...
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Monday, May 27, 2019

A Life of Their Own

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Thomas's post on Monday about babies and characters developing took me right back to when my first child was born - and that wasn...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

The Magic Lever

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While we writers like to portray ourselves as servants to the Muse, as mortal scribes channeling Inspiration, we gotta pay the rent and tha...
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Friday, May 24, 2019

My Canned Personal News

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I get a lot of my news on-line. That's a terrible idea. I now realize this practice prevents me from developing an informed opinio...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Natural Organic Reduction AKA Human Composting

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I grew up in Washington state. Even though I haven’t lived there in a long time, my ears perk up anytime there’s a story in the news about d...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

More on character development exercises -or- how I learned to actually enjoy waiting for my flight to depart

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by Rick Blechta Something in Thomas’s post yesterday caught my eye: “…while waiting for your flight, describe the people you see and creat...
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Monday, May 20, 2019

Babies and developing characters

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This past weekend, my wife and I flew to Kentucky, to visit my family and my new grandchildren, twins Thomas and Caroline. We were both over...
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Saturday, May 18, 2019

Guest Post: Marni Graff

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Aline here.  I'm delighted to be able to introduce you today to Marni Graff.  She's the award-winning author of two series - The Nor...