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Character Backgrounds

| January 18, 2012

One of the projects that I’ve been working on for the past couple of weeks is a character background for a Changeling game that I’ll be playing in, beginning later this month. I’ve been writing character backgrounds for most of the games I’ve been in for more than 10 years now. Even if they’re not […]

Pacing Lessons from Hollywood

| October 30, 2011

The hubbie is off at World Fantasy Con, which means I’ve learned a couple of things. 1) Cats do not like it when you try to stick stuff in their mouth. 2) It’s hard to cook for one person. 3) Movies are great for learning how to structure the pacing a novel. I say this […]

Collaborative writing

| July 16, 2011

I participated in a bit of an experiment today. The goal: have five authors work collaboratively on a story to conclude an upcoming anthology. Having never worked on anything of the sort, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I also went in feeling a wee bit intimidated, as everyone else involved is a bit more […]

First Person vs. Third Person

| March 11, 2011

I posed this question to my writing group last night, which got me some answers, but it also sent us off on wild tangents about 4th person and 5th person (among other things). When writing a story, how do you decide if you want to tell the story in the first person or in the […]