Naming your character

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Finding a suitable name for your charcter is one of the most crucial decisions you’ll have to make during writing your story. It will have a huge impact on how the readers see the character and there’s a possibility you’ll change your perception of the charcter as well.
How to go around naming the [...]

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Creating Characters – Sound Differently They Should

Look at the title. Who would say it this way? Given that I actually created the sentence correctly, the answer that pops to your mind should me “Yoda! Yoda! Green dwarf full of sex, Yoda!” Okay, I pushed it too far.
But my point is, just by the speech pattern, you were able to recognize the [...]

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Creative Writing 101: Fleshing out Characters

You already know a thing or two about creating a character. I wrote about some basics in my “Search and Destroy: Mary Sue” article.
What I’m about to write here will be closely connected to that previous post.
There are many ways of creating a character. And however you do it, I want you to remember one [...]

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Search and Destroy: Mary Sue

No story can go on for long without a main character. So at some point every writer has to create a protagonist. Or, if you’re into the current trend, an anti-hero. At this point it doesn’t really matter. Because I’m about to introduce you to your biggest enemy. Your worst nightmare.
The Mary Sue.
She’s a female [...]

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