Characters
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Hate the lineup this year? Vote for change! Focal Character name: Pending. Point me in the right direction! Background: If none of the aforementioned characters catch your fancy, why not vote for something new? I’ll force myself to think up a new protagonist, alongside an entirely original setting and storyline, to write about over november!…
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Hello all! As I have made very clear in most of my posts, I am an aspiring novellist: I want to write stories, to create characters and to share my bizarre worldview in a palatable form. Thus, there is no bigger opportunity for me to do this than to partake in the grand literary escapade…
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~Ah, Terry Pratchett. How I love thy books~ Terry Pratchett had to be one of my favourite writers of all time, though I only started reading him long after his death in 2014. His approach to characters and fantasy was altogether unorthodox – I’ve never seen such an intimate, funny setting in all my life!…
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Hello dearies. Now, this decided to do something a bit different for this weekend update to kind of extend last week’s moral a bit (TLDR make writing difficult for yourself) – as you might’ve guessed from the title, I’m handing out prompts to the unwilling congregation! If you are in need of something to curb…
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…and then poor Trent gets bent at the en(d)t! yes! A spoiler – wodged at the start of my review! But by now, it’s hardly uncommon knowledge. I first found out about Nellie and her sentimental end from a Horrible Histories book – Vile Victorians, to be precise. The victorian public were absolutely wild about…
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Hello all! Sorry for the lack of posts last week. I was a tad busy with relatively mundane matters, as well as writing through the humidity-induced pain. Although I’m very much planning for next week’s advice post and returning to university, I’ve got nothing substantial to show you all yet… Aside from an expletive amount…
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Hey up all! Here’s to another writing advice session. Today, because I’ve decided to talk about something I’m personally very invested in. Perhaps unnecessarily more actually writing the novel itself: character design. I’ve been obsessed with making characters since I was a little brat, because I’ve got an eye for certain tics and traits. It’s…
Ben Easton - The Novel Hovel 