This is the first post of my Real Characters series of interviews. The point of them is to act as a little piece of research when writing realistic characters. My inaugural interview is with the author David Klein. Klein has two published books available for sale on Amazon. Clean Break has a particularly good antagonist … Continue reading Real Characters: Author David Klein
Writing
What I Learned from Teaching Psych 101
I just finished up teaching four sections of Psych 100 last week, and there are a few themes which came up over and over that are good things to remember when doing character development. You want your characters to be believable, so knowing how people work on the inside can only help. First off, one … Continue reading What I Learned from Teaching Psych 101
Cost and Value
Not too many people know this about me, probably because I don’t really have all that many friends to begin with, but I like to watch religious movies like ‘God is Not Dead’. The most amusing thing to me about them is that the people involved think that, by watching the films, non-believers will have … Continue reading Cost and Value
Pulling the Trigger
I've never had difficulty adding words to things. If you listen to me talk you'll hear the commas and parentheses as if they were actually coming out of my mouth. That situation is encouraged by the fact that I can count on one hand the number of times I regret, probably too strong a word, … Continue reading Pulling the Trigger
The Right Number of Words
Up until the first novel I finished last year, the longest piece of writing I had ever completed was my doctoral dissertation. It presented evidence that the Internet was a poor place to conduct survey research. Too many people come to the survey and don’t start it. Of those that do start, too many people … Continue reading The Right Number of Words
Overlap
I was a swimmer in High School. We had a good team, explainable by the three plus hours of practice daily, an hour of which was before school. Prior to high school I hadn’t been on any swim team, although I spent my entire summers at the neighborhood pool two blocks from my house. My … Continue reading Overlap
One New Thing
A good way to become something is to act like you already are that thing. Fake it til you make it. Pray first and faith will follow. Subscribe to magazines for writers if you want to become one. Last year my daughter came home with a school fundraiser offering magazine subscriptions. I avoid magazines. The … Continue reading One New Thing
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