Writing in first person is a really powerful tool for allowing the reader to accompany your protagonist on their journey and experience the world...
The best thing to do is to source license free images. morgue file is a good place to start.
Is there any chance you've got too many characters? Are you using character's to "pass the butter"? My advice would be that every character needs...
It's a shameless name-drop but I'm happy because today I got to work with the legend that is Brian Blessed. And I have to say that he is a most...
I get my ideas from all over the place. People watching seems to give me my biggest inspiration. Generally though the real idea evolves from my...
what with it being the 21st century and all I keep notes on my phone. I'm really disorganised and if I write things down I generally lose them,...
Meeting at a party IS a cliche. You'd have to do something pretty dramatic to make it otherwise. Maybe just as the party is in full swing they...
Of course opposites attract. My other half is beautiful, talented and sexy - the complete antithesis of myself and yet we get along just fine....
My name's Andy. If my girlfriend's name was Andy that would freak me out. also she might end up opening my post from the clinic and that wouldn't...
I remember once being a thousand words into a short story before I realised I hadn't named the protagonist. In the end I made a gag out of it and...
In eleventh century England people were sleeping on hay and going number two in the bushes. A lord would likely have a wooden roundhouse or,...
I can rarely avoid putting myself into any of the characters that I write. Even if it's just their opinion on a nice blueberry muffin, a part of...
He gets dragged to her concert by an incompatible lady friend. While there his heart is stolen by this wonderful woman performing on stage. Or...
Personally I am incredibly lazy writer. As soon as I hit a stumbling block I'll think "Well of course I can't think of what to write, I have no...
I totally agree with what Cogito is saying here. In my opinion a character should be entirely organic and should develop naturally throughout the...
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