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Creating Flawed Characters in Fiction

Unless we're talking about baking, I've never been what you'd call a fan of perfect. When things sound perfect, I start looking for the catch. That's just how I'm wired. It's the same when I read...

Author Sydney Katt
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In a perfect world, the perfect couple met and had the perfect life…except no one cared enough to read about them. Read about creating flawed characters people will actually bother reading.

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Too many people get caught up in the “winning” and “losing” of National Novel Writing Month. My NaNoWriMo word count taught me a valuable lesson…and it has nothing to do with the word count.

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As National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) winds to a close, I find myself spending more time thinking about the inherent problem of word count. Yes, I’m behind – more than 8,600 words in the hole – but that’s not my …

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Determining your story’s perspective should be a simple matter of figuring out which character drives the story onward. Unfortunately, it’s more difficult when more than one character fits the bill.

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The Alliance

How long can you play with fire before learning the fire’s been playing with you? The objective was simple: Bring infamous bank robber Raptor to justice. At least, it should have been simple. When the FBI has no leads on …

 

The Freelancer

When bombs are in play, hearts shouldn’t be… When FBI Special Agent Jackson Caldwell is sent to Dallas to thwart a vague terrorist plot against DFW International Airport, he assumes it’s either a hoax or a test to determine if …

 
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