Characters
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Nearly every writer is familiar with William Faulkner’s infamous advice to kill your darlings in writing. In general, it’s never really taken at the face value to mean to kill off your characters, but rather as a way of saying that cutting out some particularly beloved aspect of your writing will ultimately make it a…
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As I finally step forward and start my rewrite of Serpent in a Cage, I think it’s time to take a look at the second character out of the three the book will focus on: Locke‘s best friend and brotha from anotha motha, Gilferen Allok. This adorable little imp right here: Gilferen’s story has quickly…
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I came to an interesting realization the other day, as I was thinking about possible blog topics and my current body of works in progress. I have been working on an awful lot of female-based things lately. As I was setting up my tags for this post, even, I noticed the female characters tag and…
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It’s more common than you think. Now, this isn’t a post about me getting advertisers or sponsors for my blog, because I’m not entirely sure how that really works, despite that I’d love to do something like that so I could drop one of my crappy jobs. No, it’s me doing the advertising myself, and…
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Inspired by a few things, I’ve been given some more, serious thought to the idea of keeping the hero in my novel for April entirely nameless. From one standpoint, it makes it a lot easier for me, struggling as I am to find a name that I feel suits her, and, from another, more literary…
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One of the reviews of one of the books I’m reading right now (follow all that?) praised the main character for being a “feminist ahead of her time,” and that phrase got me thinking a lot. Especially how inaccurate I felt it was and how, in a way, it seems to decide that feminism and…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about characters. This is a typical response to when I’m working on an Aryneth novel, because the Aryneth books are so heavily character-based stories, stuffed with colourful personalities, to the point where I have been accused of putting in too many characters (and sometimes I agree with that, but then…
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I’ve been thinking about the novel I’ve actually finished a lot lately, which is good, considering it should have been edited, you know, yesterday. Since yesterday was Valentine’s Day, and I always feel like doing something with shipping on Valentine’s Day, I was thinking this morning about shipping in the novel, and, more specifically, how…
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…novel writes you! But seriously, it may not be the most structured or effective way of writing a book, but completely making it up as you go along is definitely fun! I love being swept away by details that seem to just manifest out of no where, how one single word or sentence fragment can…
L.S. Engler 