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Worldbuilding Workshop, Part III

Viewpoint Characters Background: a character should be a product of the sum of his cultural and personal experiences. There should be elements of both nature and nurture. For example, werewolves (or vampires or even humans) will likely have certain behaviors in common because of their biology and biochemistry. Werewolves, for example might have a needContinue reading “Worldbuilding Workshop, Part III”

Action Distraction

I wrote this guest blog last year for Babes in Bookland (hey, all!).  Since it’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, having just turned in the second book in my Latter-Day Olympians series, I thought I’d reprise it here.  Hope you enjoy! Action Distraction I don’t know about you all, but I dreadContinue reading “Action Distraction”