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Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Multitasking

April 11, 2015

Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Multitasking

April 11, 2015

Choosing a talent or skill that fits with your character’s personality, lifestyle, and values can go a long way to helping them break free of the common stereotypes seen so…

Talent and Skills Thesaurus: Psychokinesis

April 4, 2015

Talent and Skills Thesaurus: Psychokinesis

April 4, 2015

Choosing a talent or skill that fits with your character’s personality, lifestyle, and values can go a long way to helping them break free of the common stereotypes seen so…

The Importance of Grounding Characters in the Reader’s World

April 2, 2015

The Importance of Grounding Characters in the Reader’s World

April 2, 2015

We all know how important it is to build fully-fleshed characters by digging at their core. Exposing their attributes, flaws, morals, emotional wounds and fears that revolve around their basic…

Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Enhanced Sense of Smell

March 28, 2015

Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Enhanced Sense of Smell

March 28, 2015

Choosing a talent or skill that fits with your character’s personality, lifestyle, and values can go a long way to helping them break free of the common stereotypes seen so…

Kids and the Decline of Reading, Part 1: What We Can Do At Home

March 24, 2015

Kids and the Decline of Reading, Part 1: What We Can Do At Home

March 24, 2015

As a mother of a 5- and 6-year-old, I’m always curious about reading trends in the kid world, and how to get children to like reading. I know that reading…

Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Talking with the Dead

March 21, 2015

Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Talking with the Dead

March 21, 2015

Choosing a talent or skill that fits with your character’s personality, lifestyle, and values can go a long way to helping them break free of the common stereotypes seen so…

Talents and Skills Thesaurus Entry: Herbalism

March 14, 2015

Talents and Skills Thesaurus Entry: Herbalism

March 14, 2015

Choosing a talent or skill that fits with your character’s personality, lifestyle, and values can go a long way to helping them break free of the common stereotypes seen so…

Top Tips for Writing Multiple POV Novels

March 12, 2015

Top Tips for Writing Multiple POV Novels

March 12, 2015

Lisa Gail Green is here to offer some thoughts on writing multiple POVs. This is a route some authors go, but handling more than one protagonist is not easy. Lisa’s…

Why Should Characters Have a Talent or Skill?

March 10, 2015

Why Should Characters Have a Talent or Skill?

March 10, 2015

As many of you know, Angela and I are have a Talents and Skills Thesaurus that includes many aptitudes that a character might have. We started this thesaurus because we…

The Secret to Creating a Really Good Bad Guy

March 5, 2015

The Secret to Creating a Really Good Bad Guy

March 5, 2015

By CS Lakin Don’t you just love to hate really great bad guys in novels? A list of the most intriguing villains in literature includes characters such as Moriarty in…