L.V. Gaudet's Blog, page 8

Building Characters: Expand Your Character Profile

There is a subtle beauty in simplicity. Simplify your characters’ descriptions and focus on the relevant or memorable basics and let the readers’ imaginations fill in the rest.

Building Characters: Starting With the Basics

Every new character is a clean slate, ready to be made into whatever you need them to be. More importantly, they are ready to be made into what the story needs them to be.

Building Characters: An Overview

Nothing drives a story, embraces the plot, and inspires a reader to tears whether they be of anger or joy, more than a well written character.

Happy New Year!

We are all in this trying time together. Let’s be together (apart), help each other, and most importantly be kind and forgiving towards each other.

How to Write With an 80 Lb Dog in Your Lap

The seemingly mundane and commonplace pigeon. Not so special, right?

Writing Markets and Contests

Even though the world feels like it is disintegrating around us, we still write and write and write.With that, I present a list of writing markets and contests.

Observing For Story Fodder

The seemingly mundane and commonplace pigeon. Not so special, right?

Writing Markets and Contests

Even though the world feels like it is disintegrating around us, we still write and write and write.

With that, I present a list of writing markets and contests.

The Good and Bad of Repetition

While your thrice said story development spread across your book can help lure the reader into that aha moment when the pieces begin to fall into place at the end of the narrative, revealing that what may have seemed irrelevant now seems obvious, repetition can also harm your story.

When Is Enough, Well, Enough?

Even then, when do you know it is ‘enough’? Is there truly an answer to this question?