Introduction How you style your character’s thoughts can drastically change the way your readers experience the story. Thoughts are how your reader will access the deepest recesses of the story. You can use thoughts to control your story in many ways. For example, you can have your character lie to other characters while letting the …
Welcome! Thank you for coming back for Part Three of my series: Solutions for Writing Middle-Grade Characters. In this post, I’ve added three more solutions, with this week’s focus being on verbal development. Unlike the dialogue-focused article, this week I shift direction more toward how children grow and change over time as they age. I …
Step #1: The idea phase We all have to start out somewhere. Usually, it’s just a small idea floating around in the subconscious. Sometimes you see something that sparks and idea. Maybe it’s an epiphany. But, wherever your inspiration comes from, it tends to start with one thing and then spread out from there. Write …
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