I’ve been tagged by author Zoe Dawson to participate in the New Year’s Blog Hop this week. I’ve never done a blog-hop before, so already my calves are getting tired…
So the purpose of the blog hop is for us authors [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Empathy In Strange Places
Took a trip to the museum today to see an exhibit on Pompeii. I came away with a sense of how like us the people of the ancient Roman empire truly were. They had plumbing, fast food and take-out (in [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Who Built It?
Yeah, I’m capitalizing a little over the political kerfluffle, because hey, I like a policy fight as much as the next guy, but that one’s right on the level of an internet message board fap-fight over spelling and LOLcats. But [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Baggage Claim
We all have baggage. Monday, I talked about packing only what you need, even if you have tons more stuff. The same goes for characters.
As authors, we are lucky to be able to create characters whole cloth. Our characters will [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, baggage, characters, Scribbling, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Being Epic
I can’t help but think my characters are people. Yes, I know, a lot of writers share the sentiment, but that same sense of having imaginary friends can also cripple us. Because once the voices are out of our heads [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Keeping House
As an author, I get to put my characters in any location I want, because I’m the author, that’s why (oh, was I supposed to resist saying that? Oops ::blush:: )
But the right location may not be the “best” location [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: All In The Family
How many of us live in the perfect family? Show of hands?
Yeah, didn’t think so. Your family’s a bunch of circus freaks, just like mine. While every teenager thinks this, there are some of us who know…the kid’s got a [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Give ‘Em Something To Do
It’s not often that Momming Mondays and Worldbuilding Wednesdays can nicely align along a theme (though I do try, even when it’s a real stretch), but I have the good fortune to be continuing this week’s theme on “To-Do” with [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, characters, inciting incidents, Retrotech, Scribbling, storytelling, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Take A Flying Leap Day!
It’s Leap Day here at Worldbuilding Wednesday (just like everywhere else), and that makes it the perfect day to talk about Taking a Flying Leap. Good stories involve characters who are larger than life, and often that means they take [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Down To The Minute
Do you know where all the minutes in your story are? As the author, you need to have an accounting for that time, and you need to understand what it can do to your characters, your story, and your reader.
Time [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, characters, pacing, Scribbling, story time, storytelling, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays
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