If you’ve got lots of characters in your story or just have characters who leave the page for a while–or, you know, just have characters–it’s nice to remind readers who these people are. Enter character tags. Continue reading
Tag Archives: character
Character Tags: What are they?
Tags, markers, labels, traits. The craft masters have a lot of words for the details that help readers identify and distinguish the characters in a story.
Here are 6 character aspects that you can mine for tags and 5 ways to put those tags to work. Continue reading
Filed under Character, Literary Devices, Monday Tool Day
Forging the Reader-Character Bond: In our own work
Forging the Reader-Character Bond. It’s easier than you might think, and the results are well worth the effort. Especially if you can dig deep and come up with ways to demonstrate sympathy, jeopardy, etc. that are tailor-made for your specific character, in his specific story world. Continue reading
Filed under Character, Own Work Friday
Creating Three-Dimensional Characters: In Our Own Work
It’s Three-Dimensional Characters week. Let’s see if we can flesh out our characters with backstory and description, internal depth, defining choices and actions, and a future to anticipate or dread. Continue reading
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Character Change: In our own work
So, we’re looking at the inner journey this week. Let’s see what kind of an inner journey we can create for the one-liners we’re working on. Here we go… Continue reading
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Character Change: How Lisa Unger does it
We’re looking at the Inner Journey this week. Here’s the inner journey (to my eyes and ears anyway) of the main character, Ian Paine, in Lisa Unger’s Crazy Love You (336 pages).
Spoiler Alert. And Long Post Alert. Continue reading
Filed under Character, Plot, Story Master Wednesday
Antagonists: In our own stories
So this week we’re looking at how to make our antagonists as awesome and effective as they can be. Let’s see what we can do with the antagonists we’ve got in the one-liners we’re developing. Continue reading
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Antagonists: How the masters do it.
Here are my takes on the antagonist breakdowns of the stories we looked at last week (for main character want, need, flaw, symptoms). Continue reading
Filed under Character, Story Master Wednesday
Antagonists: How to create a great one.
The masters use many names for antagonists, including nemesis, opponent and villain. Here’s what they have to say… Continue reading
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Want, Need, Flaw, Symptoms: In our own stories
We’re looking at the wants, needs, flaws, and symptoms of main characters this week. Let’s get to our own: Continue reading
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