For Writers

Are your characters cardboard?

Still chatting about Donald Maass and Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook. Thought I forgot, didn't you? This week it's multi-dimensional characters. Maass uses the Artemis Fowl novels to illustrate his point. Even though I haven't read the books, I can see where this...

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Building Scenes…

A couple of days ago I mentioned Alicia Rasley's excellent RWR article on constructing scenes. Well, today during a lovely drive through some truly scary parts of downtown Chicago, I got the chance to re-read the article and make notes. As much for my benefit as...

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