Character Proactivity Workshop by C-A-Harland, journal
Character Proactivity Workshop
We’ve all heard about characters being strong, or competent, or flawed, or multi dimensional, but there’s another important character trait to remember: proactivity.
A proactive character is someone who moves the plot. Who makes decisions and then acts on them. For the sake of this article we’re going to define this process as “protagging,” a term borrowed from writer and illustrator Howard Tayler. What is Protagging?
Characters who protag (i.e. protagonists) are generally more interesting and dynamic to watch. And the simple act of protagging can make up for a number of other character flaws, such as incompete
Are We There Yet? - Pacing and Character Arc by C-A-Harland, journal
Are We There Yet? - Pacing and Character Arc
HOW TO PACE SCENE PROGRESSION
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The pace of your novel will have a huge impact on how your readers interpret events that are happening, and it will also determine how engaged they are throughout the story’s progression. If your pace is too slow, readers may feel that the story is dragging on, and they could become bored. If the pace is too fast, readers become disoriented and mentally exhausted as they try to keep up.
What Is Pacing?
The pace of your story is the rhythm of events, the speed at which the action and plot of your story unfold.
It’s important to understand that there is no set
5 Tips for Establishing Character Voices by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
5 Tips for Establishing Character Voices
5 Tips for Establishing Character Voices
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 7 “From Story to Art” – Section 9 “Speech and Voice”
With Links to Supplementary Material
After you finish your first draft in all of its rough, unpolished, corny, sappy, unorganized glory, you will likely note something rather disturbing about your characters. They all sound the same. And, upon further analysis, you may even discover that they all sound like you. Fear not! This is to be expected, and but another factor to be adjusted and improved in the many drafts to come.
Tip 1: Annotate how each character's speech pattern differ
The episodic literature experience by TheOtherSarshi, literature
Literature
The episodic literature experience
I'm no longer dreaming of getting published: I'm hungry for it, like a ravenous wolf who once got a taste of its prey and now cannot help but stalk. I have plans, I have ideas, I (finally!) have courage. The only thing I seem to lack is time (last year I was almost exclusively out of work. This year I took everything that came my way; it was, perhaps, unwise).
My first novel is out, published in a free-to-read format on BigWorldNetwork.com. In April it will come out as an ebook, audiobook and paperback. Right now it's in a strange sort of place: it was published chapter by chapter every week for a year, with three breaks of a week each. 48 c
tWR Interviews:Vocabulary, Narrative Voice and POV by TheMaidenInBlack, journal
tWR Interviews:Vocabulary, Narrative Voice and POV
Hello everyone, and welcome to our "tWR Interviews", where we interview experienced writers of our community about the art of writing!
If you're reading, please favourite and share the article so we can spread this amazing resource around!
Today we're interviewing our Carmalain7 (https://www.deviantart.com/carmalain7) and Vigilo (https://www.deviantart.com/vigilo), plus williamszm (https://www.deviantart.com/williamszm), kiwi-damnation (https://www.deviantart.com/kiwi-damnation) and Jade-Pandora (https://www.deviantart.com/jade-pandora) on vocabulary building for poetry, and raspil (https://www.deviantart.com/raspil) and Memnalar (https://www.deviantart.com/memnalar) on narrative voice and POV(point of view) for prose!
If you want to get some more educational reading, here are the other interviews we've released so far:On WritingProse and Poetry BasicsTo Rhyme Or Not To Rhyme?Description and Vocabulary
PE Prose Basics: Revise and Edit by DorianHarper, journal
PE Prose Basics: Revise and Edit
Prose Basics Week is winding down now and hopefully you've learned a lot from the brilliant past articles. But, there's more to writing than just getting that first draft done, isn't there? That's where the next big crucial step comes in: revision.
The Art of Revising:
Revision is such a huge topic to cover, especially since there are many ways to go about it. You can do self-edits, which always are a good first step, or you can get outside revisions from peers. Both are good ideas to really get your work to be top notch. But, the big thing to remember is that there's more to just editing your work than cleaning up a few spelling and gramma
Getting Your Story Written (Not Thought) by WritersInk, journal
Getting Your Story Written (Not Thought)
So, you want to write a story. Great! But for some writers, this can take a lot of time; which definitely isn’t great if you’re on a schedule! I suffer from this same problem myself most of the times that I try to write, but I’ve figured out ways to get around the tricky subject of writer’s block.
Step 1: Shutting off your Inner Editor.
Everyone has one, right? That little voice which tells you to go back, which tells you that you’ve missed a full stop, which tells you that the story can wait if the punctuation or the point isn’t up to scratch.
You need to learn how to shut them up.
Whether that might b
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Disclaimer: (as experience suggests that I need one) This resource consists of opinions. There may be better ways to write, and my advice may not fit your type of story. Please use common sense when applying the ideas expressed below. Thanks for reading!
Do you remember the Big Bad Wolf? He destroyed the Three Little Pigs' houses and ate them (or only chased them, depending on the rendition). He ran to Little Red Riding Hood's home and devoured her grandmother. The Big Bad Wolf appears in countless fairy tales to eat and terrorize the general populace.
In many children's