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amandaonwriting: “ Happy Birthday, Paula Danziger 18 August 1944, died 8 July 2004 Seven Quotes • Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story...
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Happy Birthday, Paula Danziger 18 August 1944, died 8 July 2004

Seven Quotes

  1. Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.
  2. The books are funny and sad, and that’s what people respond to.
  3. Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
  4. I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can’t write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.
  5. Read as much you can; write, rewrite, take acting lessons.
  6. In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I’ll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.
  7. When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I’d use it in a book.

Danziger was an American children’s author. She wrote the Amber Brown and Matthew Martin series.

by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write

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So, as promised, the vlog I did for school! 

Ignore the silly thumbnail, if you will. This was created for my English oral class and will be part of our final semester grade. It´s not so much about the quality than about us being able to speak more or less freely. It´s so noticeable that I´m not a native speaker though. XD

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I LOVE YOUR VOICE YOU SOUND SO PRETTY and are so pretty but i mean i love your voice! I don’t have time to listen to it all ATM but i LOVE paranormal shit so I’ll be listening later!

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Aaah thank you! I still think that neither my voice nor my face are pretty, but hey, whatever floats your boat. :D

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How Micro-aggressions are Like Mosquito Bites

I came across this video on micro-aggressions and thought it illustrated the subject well. Micro-aggressions are the seemingly “small” annoyances that affect marginalized groups. They may be based on race and/or ethnicity, gender, religion, orientation, and so on. 

It’s the casual reinforcing of stereotypes, the othering, invasive questions, the assumptions. Despite not always being boldly painted as racist or bigoted etc, commonplace everyday racism is still racism, and it leaves its mark.

Writing With Color has resources on everything from defining micro-aggressions and how to incorporate them in your writing for the reality they are.

WWC Content on Micro-aggressions:

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Worldbuilding Tips: The 5 Minute Shortcut to Creating CulturesOften times you’ll find a need for a foreign culture in your writing. But you can convey a sense of a vibrant, multicultural world without having to delve into the minutiae and...

Worldbuilding Tips: The 5 Minute Shortcut to Creating Cultures

Often times you’ll find a need for a foreign culture in your writing. But you can convey a sense of a vibrant, multicultural world without having to delve into the minutiae and idiosyncrasies of every nation. It’s fine to flesh out nationalities and ethnicities that recur or play major roles in your story. But don’t bog readers down with information that doesn’t help the story. And once you’re at peace with leaving out those details in the story, you’re free not to develop those low-level details.

So what’s the shortcut that will let you build a culture is just five minutes? R.E.P.A.R.

Read the 5 tips in detail by J S Morin

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Writing Antagonists, Antiheroes and Villains

Obviously there’s a lot of overlap between the three, despite their differences, which is why this is all one post. In fact, some of the articles have one of those words in their title but the content of the article belongs in one of the other categories.

I think the links about the antagonist’s journey are some of the most interesting on this list.

Antiheroes

Heroes and Anti-Heroes - What’s the difference?
Anti-heroes in Science Fiction Movies
5 Types of Anti-Heroes
You Need More Scoundrels in Your Life: How to Write a Han Solo Hero in Six Easy Steps!
Han Versus Luke – Who’s the Better Hero?
Defining and Developing Your Anti-Hero, excerpt from Bullies, Bastards & Bitches by Jessica Page Morrell
4 Ways to Make Your Antihero Deliciously Irresistible

Antagonists

When Being Bad is Good: Creating a Great Antagonist
Being Evil: Plotting From the Antagonist’s Perspective
10 Traits of a Strong Antagonist
12 Tips On How To Write Antagonists Your Readers Will Love To Hate
Types of antagonist
Seven Types of Antagonists
Ten Tips for a Terrific Antagonist
10 Essential Tips for Writing Antagonists
How To Write The Bad Guy
Likable Villains
3 Traits Your Hero and Villain Should Share
Guide to Writing a Villain
A Guide to Villainous Motivations

Villains

Guide to Writing a Villain
Creating an Interesting Bad Guy
The Sympathetic Villain
WriteWorld: Villains
Exploring The Dark Side: The Anti-Hero’s Journey - despite the title, this article is about villains, not antiheroes as the term is usually understood
Killer Personalities
The Antagonist’s Epiphany
How to Create a Credible Villain in Fiction
How to Avoid Creating a Weak Villain
5 Characteristics of an Epic Villain
Writing a Great Villain
14 Motives for Becoming a Supervillain
Writing Villains Vs. Writing Heroes
Villains Are People Too, But…
A Short Defence of Villains by Agnes Repplier
Villains: because a good bad guy is the author’s best friend.
The Other in Fiction: Creating Wonderfully Wicked Villains
Three-Dimensional Villains: Finding Your Character’s Shadow
10 Traits of Highly-Effective Villains
Writing Tips #79:How To Write Better Villains
Villains by Vicki Hinze
The Sixteen Villain Archetypes

The Antagonist’s Journey

Exploring The Dark Side: The Anti-Hero’s Journey
The Villain’s Journey
Does the Villain’s Journey Mirror the Hero’s Journey?
Forget the Hero’s Journey. Women want an Antagonist’s Tale
Return to the Antagonist’s Tale

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Let’s Talk About: Minor Character Development

“Creating one interesting character is hard enough — but when it comes to writing a whole novel or series of books, you have to create dozens of them. How can you keep your supporting cast from seeming like cookie-cutter people? There’s no easy answer, but a few tricks might help you create minor characters who don’t feel too minor.” [x]

10 Secrets to Creating Unforgettable Supporting Characters

  1. Give them at lease one defining characteristic. "…lots of people have one or two habits that you notice the first time you meet them, that stand out in your mind even after you learn more about them.“
  2. Give them an origin story. ”…Your main character doesn’t necessarily need an origin story, because you’ve got the whole book to explain who he/she is and what he/she is about. But a supporting character? You get a paragraph or five, to explain the formative experience that made her become the person she is, and possibly how she got whatever skills or powers she possesses.“
  3. Make sure they talk in a distinctive fashion. ”…you still have to make sure your characters don’t all talk the same. Some of them talk in nothing but short sentences, others in nothing but long, rolling statements full of subordinate clauses and random digressions. Or you might have a character who always follows one long sentence with three short ones.“ ”…One dirty shortcut is to hear the voice of a particular actor or famous person in your head, as one character talks.“
  4. Avoid making them paragons of virtue, or authorial stand-ins. ”…People who have no flaws are automatically boring, and thus forgettable.“ ”…Any character who has foibles, or bad habits, or destructive urges, will always stand out more than one who is pure and wonderful in all ways. And nobody will believe that you’ve chosen to identify yourself, as the author, with someone who’s so messed up. (Because of course, you are a perfect human being, with no flaws of your own.)“
  5. Anchor them to a particular place. ”…A huge part of making a supporting character “pop” is placing her somewhere. Give her a haunt — some place she hangs out a lot. A tavern, a bar, an engine room, a barracks, a dog track, wherever. It works both ways — by anchoring a character in a particular location, you make both the character and the location feel more real.“
  6. Introduce them twice — the first time in the background, the second in the foreground. ”…You mention a character in passing: “And Crazy Harriet was there too, chewing on her catweed like always.” And you say more about them. And then later, the next time we see that character, you give more information or detail, like where she scores her catweed from. The reader will barely remember that you mentioned the character the first time — but it’s in the back of the reader’s mind, and there’s a little “ping” of identification.“
  7. Focus on what they mean to your protagonists ”…What does this minor character mean to your hero? What role does he fulfill? What does your hero want or need from Randolph the Grifter? If you know what your hero finds memorable about Randolph, then you’re a long ways towards finding what your readers will remember, too.“
  8. Give them an arc — or the illusion of one. ”… You can create the appearance of an arc by establishing that a character feels a particular way — and then, a couple hundred pages later, you mention that now the character feels a different way.“ ”…A minor character who changes in some way is automatically more interesting than one who remains constant…“
  9. The more minor the character, the more caricature-like they may have to be. ”…This one is debatable — you may be a deft enough author that you can create a hundred characters, all of whom are fully fleshed out, well-rounded human beings with full inner lives.“ ”…some writing styles simply can’t support or abide cartoony minor characters. But for your third ensign, who appears for a grand total of two pages, on page 147 and page 398, you may have to go for cartoony if you want him to live in the reader’s mind as anything other than a piece of scenery.“
  10. Decide which supporting characters you’ll allow to be forgettable after all. ”…And this is probably inevitable. You only have so much energy, and your readers only have so much mental space. Plus, if 100 supporting characters are all vivid and colorful and people your readers want to go bowling with, then your story runs the risk of seeming overwritten and garish.Sometimes you need to resign yourself to the notion that some characters are going to be extras, or that they’re literally going to fulfill a plot function without having any personality to speak of. It’s a major sacrifice they’re making, subsuming their personality for the sake of the major players’ glory.“

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