Creating Characters with Your Character Profile
There’s more ways to create a character profile as there are failing to untie a Gordian knot. I’ll be Alexander the Great and cut it in half.
Creating Characters with Links to Your Theme
Your theme gets overlooked, and I entirely blame English classes for destroying books like they hold the secrets of the Illuminati for it.
Creating Characters with Minor Character Roles
If a character has no purpose, they shouldn’t be in your story. Define your character roles. Stick with them.
Creating Characters with A Cast of Characters
Your story needs to have a cast of eight characters if you want to make an impact. Consider also which categories these characters fall under.
Creating Characters with Major Stock Characters
I don’t like clichés; I’ve made this perfectly clear. Stock characters, on the other hand, are perfectly acceptable. If you use them right.
The Implications of Purple Prose
TVTropes.com defines purple prose as, “Intrusively ornate prose.” I call it, “No-one can read your work without a dictionary.”
The Implications of Vapid Love Interests
We all know the drill. The love interests fall off towers. The narrator talks about how perfect the love interest’s abs are for three pages.
The Implications of Overly Masculine Heroes
My mother named Indiana Jones, Marvel’s Thor and Clark Kent as Overly Masculine Heroes. And they all risk developing testosterone poisoning.
The Implications of Cliché Villains
When someone says to me “villains”, I immediately think of a moustache-twirling Brit in a suit stroking a white cat. Or a Brit in general.
The Implications of Immortality
We all love the idea of living forever. But there are some things authors don’t consider when they romanticise life after death.
3 Essential Tools for Drafting Your First Novel
There are far too many articles and books out there telling you which software to use to write with. I don’t want to be “that guy” and add to that, so this article is just the three things I tell everyone who ever asks.
The Unofficial Guide On How To Plot A Novel
In my many years of failing to complete a novel, I wrote by the seat of my pants. I didn’t know where my story went, how it would end, or anything beyond my main character.
