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6 Simple Steps to Superbad Villains
Originally posted on Sacha Black:
We all love to hate bad guys, and you gave me some fantastic additions to my villain list last week, (thank you). What I love more than hating a bad guy, is a bad guy that makes me empathise with them before I hate them. It makes the hate so much…
Crafting Villains Series #1 Who’s Your Ultimate Villain?
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April brings the start of another series, as I start to look at the villains in my novel, I thought I would share with you the things I learn. But first: Audience Participation Required… I want to run a poll, to see who your favourite villains are? Comments below. There…
Writespiration #33
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For those of you not in the UK, then a double yellow line is a marking on the side of roads to indicate you can’t park there. See picture below. If this inspired you, jot a few words, a poem, a haiku, or a story, and I will post it…
Writing Challenge Entries #3
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I have surprised myself this week with the quantity of challenges I managed to submit to. When I first started submitting them I struggled to do one or two, but I guess with practice the more you do them the quicker they become. This week I completed six and I even tried…
The Secret To The Quickest Edit You Can Do
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I have these awful words that plague me. I call them crutch words. They are those pesky words when I am in the zone writing a first draft that creep into my work…over and over and over again. They are an annoyance, an irritation, a PLAGUE on my life! They are the…
Writespiration #32
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If this?Writespiration?inspired you then jot a few words, a poem or a story and post below and I will post them with a link to your blog in next weeks post. Here’s mine: What is Love? By Sacha Black “What does it feel like, Mama?” “What does what feel like,…
The Crafting Characters Series #4 5 Reasons You Need to Find Your Character’s Face
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I read an article once, that said our brains are incapable of creating faces from scratch. I have no proof backing this up, but it seems a reasonable enough suggestion given the complexity of faces. For the purposes of this blog. This means that every face you see in your…
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