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How to Bring a Compelling Character to Life

on September 18, 2020September 18, 2020Leave a Comment on How to Bring a Compelling Character to Life

Well-written stories make both the good guys and bad guys compelling characters. They make your world more immersive for your readers and your characters more fun to root for (or against).

Writer's Life, Writing Classes

Best and Worst of Critique Comments (bonus)

on May 27, 2015May 27, 20151 Comment on Best and Worst of Critique Comments (bonus)

It’s been fun going through the nice and nonsensical comments my peers have left on my short stories over the years. Some are helpful, some are supportive, some are mean and some are just plain …

Writer's Life, Writing Classes

Best and Worst of Critique Comments #4

on May 14, 2013May 14, 2013Leave a Comment on Best and Worst of Critique Comments #4

The final verbal critique of the quarter. The 500 word short story I wrote for class was one I’m very proud of. I spent a few weeks on it and even volunteered to read first …

Writer's Life, Writing Classes

Best and Worst of Critique Comments #3

on April 2, 2013April 2, 20131 Comment on Best and Worst of Critique Comments #3

As with my fiction class last quarter, our first two stories are critiqued by the whole class. Everyone gets a copy to write on and we read it aloud. A moment of insanity struck me …

Writing

The Next Big Thing: Blog Hop

on March 22, 2013March 22, 2013Leave a Comment on The Next Big Thing: Blog Hop

I was tagged in this Blog Hop business a while ago. I meant to get on it right away, but a few things pushed ahead of it. Now that I’m less busy, I can indulge …

Writer's Life, Writing

The Best and Worst of Critique Comments #2

on February 21, 2013February 21, 2013Leave a Comment on The Best and Worst of Critique Comments #2

So we had another full-class critique of short stories. This time, the story had to be 500 words (as opposed to the last story, which was 8-10 pages). After some of the comments I received …

Writer's Life, Writing

The Best and Worst of Critique Comments

on February 7, 2013February 7, 20136 Comments on The Best and Worst of Critique Comments

I finally got to present my short story to my fiction class, and the comments I received were worth the wait. (I had food poisoning the day I was scheduled for critique, so I was …

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