Not really, no. I might give them a quirk or something of someone I know, maybe an odd part of their appearance, but any significant aspect of...
I've heard good things about SFU's writing program.
Post-modern literature often experiments heavily with elements of story and character as well. I was not really saying a story with a heavy focus...
Perhaps, then, your problem is with the word 'driven'. Maybe 'focused' would better suit you?
That doesn't have much to do with the topic, but I get that. Very few books are only one or the other, but I do think a book can completely ignore...
I see them often enough. Best example would have to have been Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, where many (fictional) texts are referenced. The...
I've seen this assumption around a lot, and I am getting pretty sick of it. I, personally, write very character-driven stories; almost to the...
How important are back stories to you and your characters? How far do you develop them? That quite depends on the character, I would say. For my...
Austin Tappan Wright, if we're just going off of sheer mass. Easily the most developed world I've ever read, and it certainly even exceeds J.R.R....
There are a lot of different opinions on worldbuilding, and for some people, it isn't even much of a thing. Both Garth Nix and Michael Moorcock,...
Not sure what any of this has to do with cartography, but yeah, worldbuilding is good fun. I write very fantastical, at times surreal, pieces, so...
I am an atheist, and an antitheist at that. I try not to write about religion, in general, because I find it very, very hard to do. I don't...
I'm not sure I see things as a movie when I read, really. And certainly not when I write. I've tried "casting" my characters for fun before, but...
I can't really answer that without knowing your story. Personally, I wouldn't need several of these to write about my characters - they serve no...
Fix'd.
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