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Character Development: Part 1

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The Basics

Character development can refer to the actual creation process in which you decide your character’s strengths, flaws, goals, features, etc, or it can refer to a character’s progression/transformation throughout a story, which is also known as an arc.

Your Character: How Much Do You Need to Know?

Some will say you need to be aware of everything when it comesto a character, including miscellaneous minutia, but when you follow that advice you’ll find it’s all too easy...

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I read all of Seven Tears at High Tide the day I got it in the mail. I love it! I got emotionally attached to Morgan and Kevin right away. I liked the pace of the story and the world building. I just wanted to leave you my appreciation for it.

Oh gosh thank you so much! I’m so glad you enjoyed Kevin and Morgan’s story and found them compelling and your appreciation really made my day! Thank you for the lovely message!

"Writing stories is hard work. Don’t let your friends or family tell you any different. From the..."

“Writing stories is hard work. Don’t let your friends or family tell you any different. From the outside, it looks like sporadic tapping on the keyboard, distracted sips of coffee, and long stares out the window. But inside, you’re wrestling demons. You’re about to bring a new story into the world, which is both incredible and incredibly important.
Why are stories important? …A good story can mean the difference between life and death for a reader—usually the death is spiritual rather than li...

10 Tips on Writing Strong Scenes For a Novel or Story

10 Tips on Writing Strong Scenes For a Novel or Story:

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Any story or novel is, in essence, a series of scenes strung together like beads on a wire, with narrative summary adding texture and color between. A work of fiction will comprise many scenes, and each one of these individual scenes must be built with a structure most easily described as having a beginning, middle and end. The beginning of each scene is what we’ll address here.

The word beginning is a bit misleading, since so...

In one of the drafts for Seven Tears At High Tide, I thought...

In one of the drafts for Seven Tears At High Tide, I thought about doing a series of flashbacks, but it didn’t end up working with the flow of the story, but I thought it might be fun to scare this little scene from Morgan’s adolescence!

Morgan is eleven years old before he truly understands what halfling means. He’d known it meant something, something shameful that his cousins would make fun of him for, that would cause his sister Naida to scowl and angrily pull the offender aside and lecture...

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Coming in April 2016: The Better to Kiss You With by Michelle Osgood

As the moderator for Wolf’s Run, an online werewolf role-playing game, Deanna enjoys working from home—hunkered down with a warm laptop on her knees and her golden retriever Arthur by her feet. When she isn’t working, she’s wandering the local forest trails with Arthur and daydreaming about her attractive neighbor, a mellow and enigmatic grad student named Jamie.

As Wolf’s Run’s denmother, Deanna deals with he...

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So many savings on so many great books! If you’re shopping this...

So many savings on so many great books! If you’re shopping this Black Friday weekend and in the mood to pick up a gift for yourself or a friend, and you’re interested in LGBTQIA stories, my debut novelSeven Tears at High Tidewill be on sale among the amazing selection from Duet Books and Interlude Press! Also something super special– this code applies to books that aren’t out yet too, so you can get your pre-order on too!

Interlude Press: 30% off with code 30Stories
Amazon: 30% off with code HO...

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