Eclectic writer

The Action Plot in the beginning scenes often shows the character who will leave and explore the land to fail as many as three times before ...

 Plot and character are twined together like a vine around a tree. You can't have one without the other.  In stories plot is the guideli...

 While similar to Mood Pieces, Character Sketches depend on one character rather than an emotion. Various scenes revolving around a particul...

In Searches, the characters we;ve met in the other books are active. Those with affinities split into groups. They search for the rest of th...

  1.         Are you a panster or a plotter or perhaps a bit of both? A bit of both. I plot the story in general, what will happen and whe...

How does one keep their characters from becoming cliches. We've all read about the tart with a big heart, the stony faced doctor, the ...

The opening of a book needs to either give the character's problems or at least hint to what they are. A character without some kind of ...

Having given the character a name, one needs to look at their traits. What are their pluses and minuses. Every writer has a way of making th...

Which comes first, plot or characters is much discussed by authors. There are some who find characters looking for a story and by using thes...

There are two basic kind of story lines. One is plot centered and the other is character centered' When writing a Plot centered story...

"What is a character? A factor whose virtues have not yet been discovered." Interesting quote with a lot of meaning in a few words...

This quote is from an essay by Susan Howatch. "Don't ramble. Never write a scene unless it's absolutely necessary, and if it i...

Once again I'm digging through Orson Scott Card's How To Write Science Fiction and Fantasy for my hint of today. How does one know ...