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The New Archetypes
Professor Snape – the ultimate anti-hero neatorama.com A blog buddy of mine, Pat Wood, listed a number of character archetypes a few weeks ago and I have been thinking about whether in 21st century...
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Character Feature: Katniss Everdeen
Katniss Everdeen played by Jennifer Lawrence hungergames wikia It’s a while since I’ve done one of these despite promising that you would get one every month… I think the last one was October 2012 when...
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Image and Your Character
coverwhiz.com Bestselling writers know that image counts according to The Guardian and they make a few good points about the importance of vivid imagery. While I agree it helps to have a character that...
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Snippet Sunday 16/2/14
I had a revelation this week about the foul-mouthed, foul-tempered Tertius Severus Nero and why he is the way he is. Last weekend I wrote a scene where he scaled a building to reach an upper floor to...
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Snippet Sunday 16/3/14
Last week you met Olesia the 20-something, half-British, half-Portuguese queen of a future-medieval Britain as she met a cousin she hadn’t seen in almost two decades. The two will fall in love though...
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Motivating Your Characters: Emotions
I’m loving how inspirational Daily Post can be at times and this is something I have been meaning to write for some time: your characters and their emotions. So, as my gladiators delve deeper into...
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Snippet Sunday: A Character Renewed
Last week, I mentioned that I had chosen to gender switch one of my Roman gladiators. He wasn’t working: I couldn’t think of a suitable back story that was engaging or would inspire empathy, his...
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Of Sins and Villains
An interesting daily post today but I am going to go slightly off topic here and suggest one favourite villain for each of the seven sins before suggesting my own eighth sin. We love our villains,...
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Character Feature: Ezio Auditore
Back to the video game characters here. Regular readers will know I am a big Assassin’s Creed fan. Now I have finally traded in my XBox 360 and won’t be able to play again as this character, I want to...
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Positive Stereotyping is Poor Characterisation
I read a lot of blogs by fellow writers. Politically speaking, I am slightly left of centre yet when it comes to creating characters and character development, there is one thing that leaves me...
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The New Archetypes
A blog buddy of mine, Pat Wood, listed a number of character archetypes a few weeks ago and I have been thinking about whether in 21st century fiction we have some new character types to explore. I’ve...
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Image and Your Character
Bestselling writers know that image counts according to The Guardian and they make a few good points about the importance of vivid imagery. While I agree it helps to have a character that is physically...
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I began work on this about ten days ago and until a few hours ago, I almost didn't post this for obvious reasons. Nevertheless, here is my summary for why Batman is my favourite masked avenger in the...
View ArticleCharacter Feature: Marcus Didius Falco
As I have only read ten of the approximately twenty books in this series, this character feature is likely to be a "part 1" with a part 2 expected many years from now. Please don't hold me to that...
View ArticleCharacter Feature: Satan in Film
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he...
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