One of the most difficult areas of description is when it comes to showing the appearance of a protagonist, especially when writing in first person POV. We need readers to "see" our protagonist, but how do we deliver description that feels natural and active? Luckily my friend Nola Sarina, Author … [Read more...] about How to Write Vivid Character Descriptions: Be Invisible!
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Talents and Skills Thesaurus: Astral Projection
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 often in fiction. This thesaurus will help you find the perfect quality or two that will show readers your character's … [Read more...] about Talents and Skills Thesaurus: Astral Projection
Character Skills & Talents: Gaining People’s Trust
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 often in fiction. This thesaurus will help you find the perfect quality or two that will show readers your character's … [Read more...] about Character Skills & Talents: Gaining People’s Trust
Talent and Skill Entry: Enhanced Taste Buds
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 often in fiction. This thesaurus will help you find the perfect quality or two that will show readers your character's … [Read more...] about Talent and Skill Entry: Enhanced Taste Buds
Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Lip-Reading
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 often in fiction. This thesaurus will help you find the perfect quality or two that will show readers your character's … [Read more...] about Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Lip-Reading
Show, Don’t Tell: Revealing True Emotion In Dialogue
Very few things pull people in like conversation. After all, when someone speaks, they are making themselves vulnerable to others. How? Because words are steeped in thoughts, beliefs and emotions. They have meaning. Power. When we talk to someone, what we're really doing is sharing a piece of … [Read more...] about Show, Don’t Tell: Revealing True Emotion In Dialogue
Talents and Skills Entry: Farming
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 often in fiction. This thesaurus will help you find the perfect quality or two that will show readers your character's … [Read more...] about Talents and Skills Entry: Farming
Talents and Skills Thesaurus Entry: Haggling
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 often in fiction. This thesaurus will help you find the perfect quality or two that will show readers your character's … [Read more...] about Talents and Skills Thesaurus Entry: Haggling
Personality Traits: Building a Balanced Character
If writing the Positive Trait & Negative Trait Thesaurus books have taught me anything, it is that compelling characters are neither good nor bad, perfect or fundamentally flawed. Instead, they are all of these things. Each has a set of good, admirable qualities, even while displaying … [Read more...] about Personality Traits: Building a Balanced Character
10 Reasons Why Your Hero Needs Flaws
When we see the word Hero or Heroine, we think heroic, which is ironic because our protagonists are usually anything but at the start of a story. Instead they are often jaded, lost, or incomplete in some way, toting along a collection of flaws and false beliefs about the world and themselves. But … [Read more...] about 10 Reasons Why Your Hero Needs Flaws
Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Knowledge of Explosives
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 often in fiction. This thesaurus will help you find the perfect quality or two that will show readers your character's … [Read more...] about Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Knowledge of Explosives
Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Organization
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 often in fiction. This thesaurus will help you find the perfect quality or two that will show readers your character's … [Read more...] about Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Organization