by Pat Marcello | Jan 11, 2011 | Writing
What’s “point of view” (POV)? It’s the angle from which your story is seen, and it can be single, coming from a single character, or you can have an omniscient third-person narrator that sees and hears all. There is a second-person POV, but...
by Pat Marcello | Jan 10, 2011 | Writing
Writing characters is a tricky process. You don’t want characters that are flat and stiff, but you don’t want to go overboard and make them caricatures, either. So, you need to really think about who these people are and where they have been. One simple...
by Pat Marcello | Jan 9, 2011 | Writing
If you’re a fiction writer, you need three-dimensional characters. If your characters are flat and boring, you won’t have a very good story. I like to start any story I write by creating my characters, or at least the main characters in my stories. In a...
by Pat Marcello | Jan 8, 2011 | Writing
What are we good at as fiction writers? Making things up, right? That’s fun for us, though often frustrating when we don’t know where to go. So, I’m going to give you a simple starting point — create your characters first. Image via Wikipedia...
by Pat Marcello | Jan 7, 2011 | Writing
One of my favorite things to do is create characters for my stories, and that’s really where a good story starts. Create a three-dimensional protagonist, who’s not all good or all bad, who suffers the same issues as we do in our day-t0-day lives and then,...
by Pat Marcello | Jan 6, 2011 | Writing
Have you ever had that feeling? You get to the end of a great book or short story, and you’re at the end and NOTHING happens? Or it’s a dumb ending or ugh! Doesn’t that just make you feel… well… icky? Does me. Image via Wikipedia When I...
