Tag: Character Building
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Writing Exercises to Try When Your Characters Fall Flat
Tried-and-true methods for helping your characters feel like real people!
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Marion: The Importance of Feeling Seen
For this week’s Musings post, I wanted to kick off a new blog series I plan on writing over the next few months: Tales of Nottingham Character Reflections.
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Basing Fictional Characters Off of Real People
Today I wanted to discuss a widely controversial topic in the writing world — basing fictional characters off of people you know. While at first glance writers (and even readers!) may think that it shouldn’t be that big of a deal, there are definitely some cons to this method of characterization that writers should be…
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Tumblr Aesthetics & the Villager Cast
So C.S. Taylor gave me the idea to use Tumblr aesthetics to describe my characters. I’ve always wanted to try this but just never had the time to do it. And then I thought — what better place to do it than in a blog post?
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My Editing Process
Hi, everyone! Today I’m going to be talking about my editing process. I briefly discussed this in an Instagram post when I was posed the question not too long ago, but I thought it might be neat to recap it here and possibly go into a little bit more depth…
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What’s in a Name?
For some people, the biggest struggle—aside from titling a story and actually writing the story—is naming their characters. Admittedly, this is a difficult process, because it’s never the same…
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On Characters
Here are the topics we’ll be discussing in today’s post: Character Development, Keeping Character Voices Distinct, How to Manage Multiple/Differing Point of Views.
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My Pre-Writing Process
When coming up with the topics for this blog event, I was asked to share about my outlining methods. It’s a wonderful topic, but I’ll admit that at first I felt pretty confused. How would I go about discussing my outlining methods? Did I even have methods? And the more I thought about what goes…
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