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Editing Tip #81: Honing Character Pt. 3 – Diversity & Truth

By M.J. Moores on April 13, 2015 • ( 4 )

Not all writers develop a full FBI background-check on their main and supporting characters and that’s okay. But when it comes time to edit your work and take a critical look at just how believable those characters really are, looking… Read More ›

Editing Tip #80 – Honing Character Pt. 2: Flaws and Quirks

By M.J. Moores on April 6, 2015 • ( 9 )

Last week I touched on adding the humanity spice to your characters be they good, bad or otherwise. Today I’d like to expand on that notion by adding a few more ingredients to your cooking character. The key element you’ll… Read More ›

Editing Tip #79 – Honing Character Pt. 1: Remembering their Humanity

By M.J. Moores on March 30, 2015 • ( 2 )

We’d all like to think that our characters, especially our main character(s), are perfect just the way we wrote them. It’s starts with a vision (or a full-blown background write-up) and then you let them loose on the page to… Read More ›

Character, It’s in the Details

By M.J. Moores on February 27, 2015 • ( 0 )

Broad strokes when it comes to building characters will often lead to stereotypical ideas & two-dimensionality. This is what every writer dreads. I stand by this quote 100% in that I firmly believe we’ll learn more about the character who… Read More ›

Discovery and Illusion in Our Own Writing

By M.J. Moores on January 30, 2015 • ( 3 )

I have always loved the idea that our characters can lead us places we never expected a story to go. If you’ve never experienced this in your writing then I urge you to give yourself the freedom to explore. I’m… Read More ›

Self-Honesty in Writing

By M.J. Moores on January 23, 2015 • ( 3 )

Isn’t honesty always a double-edged sword? I have been looking at the idea of how we, as writers, not only need to be honest with ourselves (about how good our work is, how much more we may need to learn,… Read More ›

Editing Tip #62

By M.J. Moores on December 1, 2014 • ( 6 )

Where Do I Start? I have been approached by a few NaNoWriMo winners about what to do now that they have this mass of writing (1st draft nearly finished). Many have some of the manuscript handwritten and the rest typed… Read More ›

NaNoWriMo, Gone Girl & Confessions of a Recovering Jerk

By M.J. Moores on October 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

Originally posted on Kristen Lamb's Blog:
Image via the motion picture “Gone Girl” NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is days away. I’m loading up on fiction to feed my brain and imagination. I listened to the unabridged version of Gone…

How Do You Cook Your Characters?

By M.J. Moores on September 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

As with any of the arts, I believe this quote rings true. I’ve been mulling over the idea of how we, authors, create characters and I’ve found that I quite like the idea of “cooking” them – Some of us… Read More ›

Editing Tip #22

By M.J. Moores on February 24, 2014 • ( 2 )

Avoiding Info Dump, Pt. 1 ~ There are a variety of ways and reasons authors inadvertently dump information into certain areas of their novel: Character Setting Action Back Story Often this over-sharing happens at the beginning of the book within… Read More ›