Tag: Character

August 4, 2017 / Smells

Fighting Cats

I was recently confronted with a nagging feeling that one of my stories wasn’t working. I couldn’t figure out why. Then I realized I had a Plot-Character Mismatch.

March 31, 2017 / Smells

If you throw a group of people in a stressful situation, those people will be pushed to their limits or beyond. In some stories, though, the people in the group turn to idiocy. Let’s have a look at the Flock of Headless Chickens writing smell.

February 10, 2017 / Smells
January 20, 2017 / Writing
October 28, 2016 / Writing

BrickCharacters

My bane as a writer is writing interesting characters. Characters don’t always work out like I intend them to. Sometimes they don’t work at all. When my writing group workshops my stories, it’s often characterization that comes up.