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Useful writing tools I’ve developed.

Writing Free Form Character Biographies

08.31.2011
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I think I opened one hell of a can of worms when I offered to post one of my sample biographies last week.  Three hours later, I’ve done the prep work and I’m ready to post. The biography I’m including today is for a secondary character in the manuscript I’m working on now.  Because I [...]

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Tagged as: character development, craft, notebooks, POV, process

Get Your Very Own GMC Spreadsheet!

09.20.2009

Working on a new story that I’m really excited about.  Written down my backstory, written where my characters are immediately before the story starts.  Now I’m working on the GMC charts* for my two protags, my secondary characters, and my one (maybe two?) antagonists.  Once I have this, it will be awesome and make the [...]

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Tagged as: craft, GMC, notebooks, progress, writing tools

The Great Scene Tracker

09.24.2008

I am going to share with you my greatest writing tool, the thing that keeps me sane in the crazy made-up world in my head.  Behold, the Scene Tracker.  (Please note: This is an excel file.  It was virus free when it left my computer, but because I don’t want any mean emails, etc., you [...]

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Tagged as: craft, notebooks, process, writing tools