Category: Starting a Novel

  • The Invention of Character

    There are many examples for writing students of exercises and worksheets through which to create characters. Do a search in Google Images for “character creation…

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  • For Beginning Writers – Conflict Creates Story

    Without conflict, there isn’t story. Conflict is when your characters are established and then bad things happen to them. The more bad things the better.…

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  • Working In Adam’s Shadow

    There are several aspects of publishing the debut novel that I didn’t see coming. This is another of them. I imagine with time and distance…

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  • I Can Do This

    I remember the moment. I am standing in my study at my bookshelf. It is 1988 or 1989. I am in college, a sophomore. I…

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  • Pseudocode

    Pseudocode is a term that first showed up around 1960. One source defined it as “A notation resembling a simplified programming language, used in program…

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