L.V. Gaudet's Blog, page 7

Building Characters: Now That You Created a Compelling Character, Write Them So

Make the reader crave to turn to that next chapter. They are unsettled until they find out what happens next. That is writing compellingly.

Building Characters: Make Your Extras Extra

Don’t undervalue them, make your extras extra.

Building Characters: Growing With Your Characters

Let yourself grow with your characters and it will make your story richer.

Building Characters: Create Compelling Characters

Give the reader something to discover with layers. Without some complexity, characters are a flat mirror, nothing more than a picture pasted to its front with no depth.

Building Characters: Characters Have Arcs Too

A character arc is separate from but driven in part, or largely, by the story arc. The assumption, and generally the critical point to any story, is that the events force your characters to grow and change in some way by the time the fateful words, “The End” appear.

Mixed/Multi-Genre Submission Deadlines Coming Soon

Warm up the keyboard, these mixed/multi genre markets submission deadlines are closing fast.

Looming Submission Deadlines – Crime and Horror

In the darkness, close, looms these crime and horror market submission deadlines.

Poetry Submission Deadlines On The Horizon

Ink your quills. Here are a few poetry markets whose deadlines are drawing nigh.

Fast Approaching Submission Deadlines For You – General Fiction:

Sharpen your writing pencils. Here are a few fiction markets whose deadlines are looming over us.

Building Characters: It’s All in the Name

There are as many things to consider in even a simple name as in your plot, and as complex or straight-forward because, like all things, complex does not always mean better.