Wickedness sells: nice characters are boring
Sadly, author George MacDonald Fraser, who wrote the marvelous Flashman novels, is dead. He knew how to create a character who lives – an anti hero. This excellent article, George MacDonald Fraser...
View ArticleWriting fiction: spark your writing with images
You’ve been writing your novel or short story, and for a while you were inspired, but as quickly as the inspiration arrived, it’s departed. You’ve lost the spark. You might as well be writing a...
View ArticleKindle Publishing: Yes, Writers Can Make Money Writing Fiction
If you’d asked me a couple of years ago whether writers could make money writing fiction, I would have laughed. Times change, and we need to change with them. Fiction is the new frontier for writers...
View ArticlePlot is character
Your plot is the story of how your protagonist (main character) changes. “The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.” E. M. Forster Related...
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