Tags: authentic, characters, LGBTQ stereotypes, stereotypes, writers, writing
Catching Those Stereotypes
After months of exchanging short Facebook messages and reorganizing calendars, Kate and I got a chance to meet up on Sunday. As usual, our conversation eventually made its way around to writing. We’re both trying to hit the same deadline […]
What I Confirmed About Character Enduring “The Rock”
You hear all the time that character is everything. Characters carry your story. People fall for characters, read for characters, and buy for characters. Story is nothing without the people that bring it to life. I know this, I believe […]
Exposition Through Dialogue; or, My Characters Talk Too Much
I explore characters, settings, and plots through dialogue. Pure exposition bores me – gives me nothing dynamic to play with – so I use conversations. Dialogue seems like an easy way around the show-don’t-tell rule. My early stories used that […]
A Return to Character Likeability
Way back in June I wrote a post about character likeability. Then, my main point was that I don’t need to like a character, but I need to be compelled by them. The post as a whole makes sense and […]
Question Your Assumptions
I promised I’d do a post on questioning your assumptions! Others have said it before, much better than I’m about to, but here goes… Have you ever wondered how to avoid falling into Trope City? How to make characters leap […]
Character Development: Small Things
It’s such a small thing to have your character pick up the phone and be the one to call. But character development is in the small things. Your main characters need to be people who do things – not those […]