Month: March 2018

Now let’s look at the last bits of writing Character voice. We touched on speech patterns, and that’s really where people fail to grasp dialog.…

When we think of character voice, we tend to think of groupings of syllables. There’s more to it than that. Characters such as Rick Blaine…

When we first start writing, often we fragment elements of our own personality as fodder for our characters. Writing is a particularly soul baring exercise…

Where do you get your ideas from? It’s the question that haunts writers. The problem is, they have a book they want to write. They’ve…

You know, if you really want to feature some highly skilled – and VERY bizarre – sword fighting, the Rajahs of India should be the…

What’s the most important part of all kinds of sword fighting? Tai Sabaki. Foot movement. A great deal of time in Kendo is spent practicing…

I’m falling into my previous trap of using roman numerals, but I’m hoping to be done with this part before I run out of numerals…

Sword fighting. This means different things to different people. To the Chinese, it means a springy sword with a lot of stabbing action. To the…

I’m doing a lot of research lately on Expletives. I thought – like everyone else does – that expletives are curse words. Well, curse words…

Every now and then, I see a beginning writer get frustrated when you explain the rules to them of story structure. “I don’t want to…