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writing wrestling – failure, me, and my characters

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Of all the scenes I’ve ever written, there’s one that stands particularly vivid in my memory. It’s part of a trilogy that I wrote and the character – Nefna – is just having an awful time. Not an ‘arghhh I forgot that my tea was cold and also this isn’t my tea this is old… Continue reading writing wrestling – failure, me, and my characters

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How To Write When You’d Really Rather Not

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When you want to write, but can't - that's writer's block. When you can write, but can't muster the motivation - that's ... also a bit of writer's block, but with a pinch of 'Alas-I-Don't-Feel-Like-It'. You can write, but you don't want to. Motivation has dried up, vanished. You want to read, or get up… Continue reading How To Write When You’d Really Rather Not

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Dear Character … A Loincloth is an Impractical Piece of Clothing

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How often have you created characters who are simply cardboard cutouts? What if ... what if one of those poor, defenceless characters decided to protest his ill-treatment? Following on from Part One. [Extracts from] Requests to the Author, from the Promoting Character Development Society on behalf of Character 42b Character 42b, who prefers to be… Continue reading Dear Character … A Loincloth is an Impractical Piece of Clothing