Happy New Year, voyagers! I figured that the first post of 2023 needed to be special, and what better way to start a new year than by talking about first lines? I’ve had this post sitting in my drafts for an embarrassingly long time, so it was time to dust it off, polish it up, […]
Read MoreBack in June of 2019, I wrote a post called How to (Realistically) Write the Selfish Character Arc. It was the first real post that I published on this blog, and three years later, it remains my most popular post with 1,834 views (in case you were curious). I had no idea that this post […]
Read MoreYou’ve spent hours upon hours, just pouring yourself into your novel and now, it’s finally completed. It’s still only a first draft, but you’re proud of yourself. Your little brain child is finally on paper, stored away in one of your top secret files, and you’re ready to take a good, long break from it […]
Read MoreAh, the selfish character. These guys are interesting, aren’t they? Their character arcs can be incredibly complex and the reader usually spends the majority of the novel trying to decide if they’re good or bad…only to discover that they fall into that weird, little gray area. The funny thing about these selfish characters is that […]
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The Long Voyage 