Hello folks and happy Friday! The other day I blogged about conflict, and the all and ever familiar (or not so familiar) concepts of internal and external conflicts. Today, we attack the character’s arc. Every character has to be as realistic as possible to be believable. The psychology of a character plays a really huge…
Happy Wednesday! This post is a small cheat sheet dedicated to conflict. Every plot is built on: 1) The internal conflict: the character’s emotional, mental, spiritual, physical evolution/struggle throughout the story; 2) The external conflict: events happen in the world where the story is taking place and the character reacts to them. The external conflict…
Happy hump day!! Plotting. Ah yes. I will scratch my head for hours trying to come up with the best strategy. This morning, I stumbled upon this on Pinterest: Oh. That makes my life easier. I was a total nube when it came to plot, and structure my story in a logical way. I was…
Heya all! And a happy Monday – hopefully, a good one. My brain is like a train station – or an airport. Incessant traffic, noise, arriving and departing thoughts, to any outsider (and who will probe my brain, really??), my mind is busy – very busy. I have a tendency to follow tangents, think of…
Happy Monday all! Fantasy and supernatural stories need to follow a set of rules in order to be as realistic as possible. Dystopian tales do the same. Whatever environment the characters will roam in has to make sense, and if a rule is broken, a good explanation has to be given, otherwise the whole world…
Are they even related? Well…let’s say I managed to finally review, rewrite and self-edit my book while recuperating from a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy performed ten days ago because my tonsils were simply making my life hell for the past few years. So in between takes of Tylenol extra-strength (I refused to get narcotic pain medication…
The Manicheans 