Today I was privileged to have the opportunity to experience a special kind of reward for participating in NaNoWriMo: at the invitation of Chris Evans, I read an excerpt from Chapter 14 of the first novel of my Bent Parallels Quintology on UVM station WRUV this morning at 10. Aaron Smith, another Verimo, was the [...]
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NaNoWriMo: Fruits of My Labor
Posted in Character, NaNoWriMo, Reading and Writing on December 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
NaNoWriMo: Valuable Sources for Character Names
Posted in Character, Inspiration, NaNoWriMo, Online Research, tagged writing on November 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I ran across some useful sources for character names today that I’d like to share. • Native American names at Writing Adolescent Fiction/Character Names/Native American but be sure to carefully distinguish tribe-appropriate names. • Wikipedia Category: Surnames a listing of a large number of surnames that can be searched by the first two letters • [...]
Building Character 2
Posted in Character, Inspiration on May 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We call it waiting because we don’t find it valuable in and of itself (if we did, we’d assign a different name): it’s time that doesn’t have its own meaning—a holding place until the real event starts. These days it’s often possible to avoid waiting—we carry cell phones and lap tops and PDAs to chase [...]
Building Character
Posted in Character, Inspiration on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Authors of fiction start their creative process in various ways. Some tout character, some setting, some plot, as the jumping off point for their writing. In this regard, I suppose that I am of the “eclectic” school, because my creations grow from different starting points at different times. And inspiration comes from a variety of [...]
