What do you do when your beta readers hate your characters? And I don’t mean like they hate the characters they are supposed to hate because of what they did in the story — I mean when they tell you the character is a bad character. An unbelievable character, a flat character. A character they […]
Why is writing diversity so important? For one thing, unless the world you’re building happens to be the most boring world in the, well, world… chances are the world you’re building includes a diverse population. Diversity is the norm. And if you don’t believe me, just look around you. Check out the people in your
Is writing evil characters really that hard? (Don’t shoot me, this is completely rhetorical. The answer is yes, but they don’t really have to be). Here is my problem with a lot of fiction stories: the main character is flawless. And I do mean flawless. And the antagonist is just one big walking flaw of
Writing fantasy isn’t as “easy” as people seem to want to say it is. There isn’t a lot in this world that bugs me. Chewing on the phone, interrupting me while I speak, lies, when my favorite shows get cancelled, shopping for clothes, malls, trying to find new shoes, loud fireworks being set off in
