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Diversity in Writing: Coloring Beyond The Lines
When authors reach across the divide to learn more about the community they wish to capture, in all its nuances, textures and layers, the characters they write will come alive.
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Making Your Characters Behave: Credibility and Due Diligence — Documentation
Similarly, fiction writers need to conduct due diligence in researching, tracking down information, and in working with others (specialists) so their writing has credibility.
Do Novelists Need A Book Proposal?
That proposal includes information which never appears in the manuscript yet is critical for the voting members to make a decision about offering you a contract.
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Men don’t desire to have problems solved more than woman do, but they have a greater desire to be the one who solves the problem and gets credit for the feat.
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Historical settings can bring out the courage in your hero/heroine if you set the stage for heroism.
The Write Technology: Keyboard Shortcuts
Before the mouse and colorful user-integrated icons, keyboard shortcuts were the norm. Although their history can be dredged from the chronicles of computer history, it doesn’t make their use any less valuable.
Making Your Characters Behave: Creating Individual Historical Characters
When you constrain your imagination to what a typical woman would have done in a time period, you’ve hamstrung her.
Diversity in Writing: Casting Against Type
Writing characters against type is a chance to broaden readers’ knowledge and understanding of diverse groups of people in defiance of common stereotypes and clichés.
