Tag: character development
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Building Your Plot: An Introduction to Your Abstract
I’ve already confessed (multiple times, admittedly) that my favorite part of writing is the world-building. If I could, I would immerse myself in one world or another and build, build, build. Like Tolkien, I would know the people, their beliefs, their sense of fashion, their ethics, their language, their history. You can, I think, find…
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Four Trends I’ve Noticed in Certain Authors’ Novels
Here’s the thing about novel writing. It’s a massive underaking. If you don’t know that, you must be new. It can be easy to get overwhelmed, or to lose faith. The reason, I think, that most people give up in the end is that they don’t know what it is about novel writing that they…
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Giving Characters their Voice
Character voice is a subtle art. Certainly, it a bit of a chaotic one. You have to know enough about them to know what they might say in a particular situation, and if you think that’s not terribly hard, then bring to mind a person you know very well. A sister, a parent, a best…
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Regarding the New Posts
The Mad Chronicler has slowly gained popularity over the past year, and so naturally a good question to ask me would be So why change things up? I feel like it’s an important question to ask, hence why I’m dedicating an entire blog post to it. The long answer? There are two separate approaches when…
Katie Bachelder 