August 2, 2017 Meet Jordan Binak We’re going to meet another fictional character today. This one was created over 20 years ago! Often when authors create fictional characters, they pull from themselves and add strengths they want. If you study Charles Dickens, you learn that the character of David Copperfield [...]
July 6, 2017 Creating Darren One of the neatest parts about writing (for me, anyway) is creating people. Maybe I take it too far, but I like to have elaborate backstories for everyone. (For example: a character with a small part in “Web of Deception” has fifteen pages of notes [...]
June 27, 2017 Mythical Horses They say that in fiction, we don’t really create anything new, we draw on our memory of things we have seen to create something new: Like the Sevokloi in Web of Deception – they are like squids with reptile bodies (leather) adapted for a desert [...]
June 24, 2017 Captured Places Have you ever walked through a place you loved so much you drew scale drawings of it and built models? I love architecture. I plan each building and area – in most of my stories, even down to the plants and what color flowers are [...]