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Featuring everything new and experienced authors need to develop creative and technical skills. Check out writing development articles, our Word of the Day, writing prompts, anthology opportunities and more!

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Arts and Crafts - Character-istics

What elements make for a believable character?  What can writers add that aids in the complete and utter suspension of disbelief?  Lots of thing come to mind like quirks, back stories, associations, inner thoughts, tribulations - and the list goes on and on.  However, something many authors have done with beloved recurring characters is to give them hobbies.  Certainly Sherlock Holmes had several and varied 'pursuits'.  Agatha Christie had Miss Marple constantly knitting.  Let's try rounding out
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Word Triggers

Certain otherwise-innocuous words can be a trigger for some people.  Maybe it's a negative association with the word - a reminder of past trauma or a social faux pas.  It could be a word that becomes an inside joke - an innocent word given a not-so-innocent meaning.  These words make us cringe and avoid them and not really want to explain our reaction to other people.  For me, a certain spring-blooming flower is a word trigger.  I avoid saying the name of this flower because I have  negative ass
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Bird Brains

We often think of birds as being superfluous beings.  Almost always there, but usually we don't notice them.  However, let's try something different.  Let's pretend we are a bird, observing a scene, and maybe even the people in it.  What do you encounter and what does a 'bird's eye view' mean to your writing?   #243 - Canadian goose - You are traveling far, far away to winter someplace warm.  What do you encounter and how does it affect you?   #244 - Pigeon - You live in a sq
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