So you have built your world, your story idea and have created these awesome, diverse and intriguing characters, now it's time to name them. How are you going to do that? Here are some of my thoughts on choosing names for your characters.
Category: Tutorials
How To Kill Off Your Characters
Since my last tutorials were about fight scenes and battles & wars, I thought it might be prudent that this one would be about killing off characters.
Not the favourite topic of writers as we're not always too keen to give them the ol' heave ho from their life.
How To Write Powerful Battles & Wars
I recently wrote an article on How To Write Strong Fight Scenes. I mentioned in that article that things are a little different when you are writing about more extreme fights such as battles and wars. So I decided to put together this tutorial about things to consider when writing them.
How To Write A Strong Fight Scene
Fight scenes can be difficult to write. After all, there is a lot going on and putting that kind of action down with words rather than visuals can be tough.
Some novels I've read had painful fight scenes that I either skipped completely or re-read just to figure out who was doing what.
So this tutorial is an amalgamation of my thoughts on the best ways to do it.
How To Write Realistic Sex Scenes (pt.2)
This is the second part of my article on writing realistic sex scenes. If you missed it, check out How to write realistic Sex Scenes (pt 1). Sex scenes can appear in many books, not just romance and/or erotica. Making the scenes more realistic can add detail to your character and be enjoyable for your audience.
How To Write Realistic Sex Scenes (pt.1)
Let’s make something clear. This tutorial is about writing sex scenes in fiction NOT writing erotica. For those who don’t know the difference, erotica is literature written specifically to excite. Erotica has very basic plots that are moved along with sexual acts. This tutorial is about writing sex scenes within regular fiction (leaning, as usual, more towards fantasy fiction).
How To Write Realistic Dialogue In Your Novel (pt.1)
Dialogue is the speech between characters. It is when the narrator (you) stops telling the story and the characters speak instead. Here are some things you need to think about when writing dialogue.
How To Make Realistic Memorable Characters
Characters are the life-breath of your novel. You want your readers to connect with them, to cheer for them, to grieve with them... to do that, you need to make realistic, memorable characters.
How To Build Your World: Languages
This blog post was suggested by YokoNakajima from deviantART. Big thanks for suggesting this topic. I am always happy to hear from my readers on their suggestions for a new article/writing topic. If you want me to write about something specific, just use this form to let me know. So I thought I would add it to my World Building series.
Things To Consider When Researching For Your Novel
Research is a big part of being a writer. You might have a wicked talent for creating characters, threading plot-lines and scoring dialogue but if you do no research then you work will probably have some holes.
Some writers love research, others hate it. I flash between the two depending on my mood.
Now, my personal rule is that any writer worth their salt who WANTS to be published someday has a good collection of reference books in their home. Or knows intricately the layout of the reference section in their local library.
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