I know. You’re supposed to create interesting, flawed characters with compelling back-stories. The last thing you want is for a rejection letter to tell you that you have flat, dull characters. So what do you do? Like all good writers, you try to make your characters deeper by giving them some interesting baggage from their […]
Self-critique of my first page
I opened up the first draft of a novel that has been sitting on my computer untouched for the last couple of years and started looking it over. The good news is that is a good story. It’s a fun read and I’m looking forward to start working on it again. I’m hoping to have […]
3 Horror clichés I found in my writing (and 2 more you should avoid)
Isn’t it funny how you can read another writer’s story and say, “Wow, how unoriginal. That’s been done a hundred times before,” but somehow totally overlook it when it’s your own work? I went looking through some of my unpublished or unfinished horror stories the other day and realized that one of them was basically […]
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