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Hero’s Journey in Three Act Structure

I’ve was recently reading Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell, and he has a nice outline of The Hero’s Journey, or Mythic Structure in a Three Act format, which I paraphrase here: Act I Introduction to hero and his world Disturbance that interrupts the hero’s routine and/or a “call to adventure” The hero may […]

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Their Ways

This page documents some things I found while reading other peoples’ works that I think stood out as lessons in greatness or lessons in mistakes.  I only cite authors if I quote them verbatim and if it’s not so bad it might embarrass them :-O Errors of Their Ways I read a short story in […]

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Character Discovery Scenarios

Sometimes it is helpful to see how your character would handle being in different situations to get a better idea of who he/she is.  Here are a few samples: Set your character up on a blind date How does he/she react to the idea?  What does he/she do to prepare?  What happens on the date? […]

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Questions To Ask Your Character

Sometimes I talk to my characters.  Here are some questions that you can ask your character to get the conversation going and discover more about him/her: Questions for your character How do you feel about that? Why did you do that? What interests you about that? When did that develop in you? Where were you […]

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Character Development Template

Here is a template, in the form of a set of questions, for understanding a character when you first meet him/her.  At the bottom I’ve linked to the sources for a few of the questions and references to some resources on this topic.   Basics Full name: Species: Age: How old is he? (And how […]

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Writing Tips/Pointers/Reminders

Here are some tips, pointers, and reminders I find useful to keep close while writing.  I put them here in the hopes that at least one will be helpful to you …. This page changes at the drop of a hat as I find something useful to add, and I just add the new content […]

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Write Minded

Here I’m going to drop links to helpful pointers, tips, lessons, and tools for better writing  that I have learned or picked up here and there and along the way of whatever way I am on.  Since most of my writing is fiction and poetry, these are focused primarily on those genres. I’m always interested […]

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