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Schedule Change
Hello everyone! I’ve some good news and some not so good news to share with you all. The good news is I have a new job; the less than good news is I have less time so I shall be updating the blog on a biweekly-to-monthly basis rather than once/twice a week. Once things settle down a bit, I shall write several blocks of posts and release them but until then, I’m afraid I must ask for your patience!
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Series II, Part III
Series II, Part III
Hiatus
Today is more character focused than usual! Let’s imagine, for a moment, you have your plot, your character background(singular, plural characters), and your world is up and running. Then let’s pause. Let’s take a break. A vacation, a disruption to the daily life of your character; perhaps a power outrage, national holiday, war crisis, alien arrival, what have you – for whatever…
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Series II, Part II – Charlatans
Series II, Part II – Charlatans
Welcome back! Today I was looking through my blog, checking various things, updating links and I happened to look in the comments – the spam ones. This got me thinking… what sort of trolls and hecklers do you have in your story worlds?
Deceptive Deviants
Do the ‘trolls’ in your world live under proverbial (or actual) bridges? Do they send spam mail? (The image of actual trolls living…
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Series II - Part I - Cultural Norms: Characters & Readers
Series II – Part I – Cultural Norms: Characters & Readers
Welcome to our new series! For this series, we’re straying away from ‘the basics’ and instead we’re going to be looking more at ‘how characters affect their world, and how the world affects the character’ – a writing motto of mine. There will, of course, be lots of worldbuilding involved and a few non-character focused posts along the way. So settle in, get your pen and notepad ready, and see…
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The Basics, Part XI – “Wrapping Up”
The Basics, Part XI – “Wrapping Up”
Welcome to final entry in the Basics Series (I). Today, we’re going to review what we’ve been looking at over the past three months (has it really been so long already?) and next time, we’ll begin our new series.
Over the course of The Basics, despite only scrapping the very tip of the iceberg, we’ve covered a fair bit:
War, Peace, Tone, “The Divine”, Geography, Climate, Resources &…
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The Basics, Part X – “Communication & Disasters”
The Basics, Part X – “Communication & Disasters”
Welcome to the penultimate entry in the Basics Series (I). Today, dear friends, we will be looking at communication & disasters (natural and otherwise). But before we get stuck into that, I’d like to say that there is still so much more to write and the next series is incoming, so stay tuned!
Communication
Tradewinds, roads, rivers, sea routes, railways, canals; these were/are all…
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Funeral
Character Exercise
Today’s exercise is a bit more morbid. A character, whether your main, or side, has died. The circumstances are up to you. A memorial or funeral service is held.
1. Who attends? How do they react? Perhaps there is a sense of anger, relief, or even a sense that the character has cheated them (especially if they are a rival).
2. What does your character leave behind?
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The Basics, Part IX – “Food & Drink”
The Basics, Part IX – “Food & Drink”
Welcome back!
Following on from fashion, what foods & drinks are fashionable? What is available, how easily, and why?
Back to geographical worldbuilding, how do you label your foods? Are you transplanting foods from earth? For example, [place name] grape? Many Earth foods and drinks are tied to geographic location. Burgundy, champagne, sherry, to name but a few. What sort of varieties do…
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New Look! You may have noticed that the blog is looking a little different, well, that's because it is!
Walking Your Street(s)
Character Exercise
Today’s exercise is about location. How well does your character know their town, village, city, etc? How well do you as a writer know it? Have you walked your streets, really walked them? That’s what we’re going to do today.
Describe up to three (or more, if you are so inclined), streets from your world. Use any viewpoint you like, whether street-view, top-down, first…
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The Basics, Part VIII – “Fashion”
The Basics, Part VIII – “Fashion”
Welcome back!
Today, I’d like us to take a brief look at fashion. Let’s think haircuts, beards, moustaches, top hats, monocles, spectacles, piercings and tattoos.
Before we continue, we should probably appraise the culture’s technology. For tattoos, that doesn’t matter quite so much, (although, acquiring the pigments for inks might mean a trek or perhaps they’re already at hand), but for…
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Tempus Fugit - but in which direction?
Tempus Fugit – but in which direction?
Character Exercise
Your character is sent back in time (even if it’s a dream) to their parents/grandparents’/great, great grandparents’ day. What do they find? How difference is life? How do they adapt?
1. Parents’ day.
2. Grandparents’ day.
3. Great, great grandparents’ day.
Taking it Further
Your character is now stuck in one of the three eras (or if you prefer, a distant…
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The Basics, Part VII - "Myths"
The Basics, Part VII – “Myths”
Mythic figures
The hero, the legend, the villain
Welcome back! Today, we’re going to be taking a brief look (and it will be brief!) at legendary figures.
So by now, you have a world. You have terrain, climates, seas (perhaps), and maybe coffee beans or an equivalent. Perhaps you have tea. That tea could be found in one part of the world, a mountain slope, on some high up peak and the…
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If I Could Fly...
If I Could Fly…
Character Exercise
Your character develops a superpower and/or magic. As much fun as that might be, there are serious downsides. (And if you really hate superpowers, just boost an existing trait, such as athleticism, or up their game at chess, for example).
Jealousy, envy, suspicion, rivalry, the urge to never have to work again… what are the downsides, pitfalls and temptations your…
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Structuring Stories
Welcome back!
A friend posed the question: “how do you go about structuring a script for longer stories?”
So I decided I’d give that a shot. I’m going to point out that this is just one way of handling it – and not always one I adhere to (it depends so much on the story and its scope), but in the interests of answering the question, here is a method I use (or like to think I use in my more…
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'Meow'
‘Meow’
Character Exercise
Somehow, your character has been turned into a cat. An ancient curse, a hex, a genetic mutation device, a teleportation accident, a dream that your character just can’t wake up from (yet). Regardless, your character is now a cat.
As a cat, your character may possess its former memories, sapience, intelligence, or it may find its senses sharpened. It may be a kitten, a…
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The Basics, Part VI - "Education"
The Basics, Part VI – “Education”
Education
Welcome back! This time, I’m going to pose some questions – and I’ll leave you, dear reader, to answer them. Today’s topic is on education.
Do girls get the same education as boys? Is there a standard education? Does it follow the three ‘R’s? (one of which is not an ‘r’ at all… – those being ‘reading, writing, arithmetic’?)
At what age does education begin? At what age does…
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