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”
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Worldbuilding Workshop, Part II
It’s a special challenge when creating a new world to which your readers must be introduced (or the changes you’ve made to a familiar one) to do so and maintain a pulse-pounding pace while also developing characters and plot. This can lead to a lot of exposition, which often sounds clunky and inhibits a smoothContinue reading “Worldbuilding Workshop, Part II”
Worldbuilding Workshop, Part I
For those who’ve asked me whether I was going to post my Worldbuilding Workshop on-line somewhere, here it is at long last! (The beginning anyway.) Special thanks to Gerald Blackwell, who redrew the diagram because I couldn’t figure out how to get it to transfer from Word! Welcome to Part I. I hope you enjoy. Continue reading “Worldbuilding Workshop, Part I”
History and POV by D.B. Jackson
Anyone who’s taken my Writers Digest webinar on writing science fiction, fantasy and the paranormal or who’s taken one of my worldbuilding workshops will have heard me quote David B. Coe, who is a wonderful writer, blogger and teacher of all things writing. He’s a regular contributor to Magical Words, which has a lot ofContinue reading “History and POV by D.B. Jackson”
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