Tag: character

  • ASK ME ANYTHING! THURSDAY, MAY 5TH, 2016

    ASK ME ANYTHING! THURSDAY, MAY 5TH, 2016

    TONIGHT! 7:30 PM EST – ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU CAN ASK ME ANYTHING! What can nanotechnology do in the human body? How many hours did it take for me to write True Born? Can Canadians get away with writing genre fiction? What’s my favourite yoga pose? Is it just me or does William Shatner run the world?…

  • Description – Part I:  Friend or Frenemy?

    Description – Part I: Friend or Frenemy?

    Description can be your best friend. Equally, it can be like that frenemy who talks about you behind your back and steals your boyfriend. I’ve been on both ends of this particular lesson. As a Master’s student in Creative Writing one of my teachers went so far as to indicate that I “overdid” description in…

  • Character Flaws

    Character Flaws

    The most compelling part of any story – even more so than a good plot – is character. While plot can be imagined as the track by which a story moves from a to z, character is the engine of a story that takes the reader over every dip and bend and turn of the…