Tag Archive | Character Interviews
At Odds with Destiny – PreOrder Time!
Originally posted on P.C. ZICK:
Native Lands, my latest release, is one of the novels featured in this new box set. I’m proud to have my work alongside some very talented and lovely authors. While the novels span the spectrum of literary, historical, and contemporary fiction, they all contain a common element. Finding themselves at…
Plot Issues: Stupidity
Originally posted on Vampires, Crime and Angels…Eclectic Me:
I don’t know about you, but I’ve watched a handful of films and TV shows, recently, where the plot progression is stagnated, by a character’s stupidity. I don’t mean that the character comes across stupid or is actually stupid; I mean that the little things the characters…
The Guardian – Another Progress Report
Originally posted on Have We Had Help?:
Is one of these The Guardian? As I’m halfway through writing chapter two of The Guardian, I need to take a break while I do some more thinking. Without giving too much away, I will say that at this stage in the novel there is an undeniable sexual…
Writing from the Dark Side: Jane Lythell talks about the flawed characters in her novels
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
Jane and I belong to the same group of authors – the Beach Hut Writers – and, although we’ve met before, we really got talking when we shared a table at the office christmas do. (That’s a bit of an insider joke. There is no office. We all work…
Did you know where Dickens got the character Scrooge from? It was a bit of mistake actually…
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
It is clear from any Dickens’ novel that the great man enjoyed names. His friend and biographer, John Forster, said that Dickens made “characters real existences, not by describing them but by letting them describe themselves.” You can find a comprehensive list of all Dickens’ characters HERE a website…
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