You can’t afford a passive protagonist. Writing advice abounds out in the blogosphere—I’ve contributed some of it myself. You can find interesting and informative posts on characters, plot, dialogue, and even commas. But here is one mistake that is literally…
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Backstory Is Not Story
That might work in a cartoon, but you just can’t start your story with backstory. It seems like such a pity. The easiest solution is to start at the beginning and when we get to the end, stop. And y’know,…
Tagged with: backstory, beta readers, Cathleen Townsend, character, description, exposition, name soup
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Posted in Writing
Writing What You Know
This is common advice, along with write from your heart. But sometimes, when things are said in sound bites, it’s easy to become confused. After all, if we only write what we directly know, we could never have a story set…
Tagged with: Cathleen Townsend, character, research, setting, writing what you know
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Interview with Jo Zebedee
Jo Zebedee writes science fiction and fantasy, sometimes in her space opera world of Abendau, sometimes in her native Northern Ireland. In between, she works, runs after kids, pets and a husband, not always in that order. Abendau’s Heir, book…
Tagged with: Abendau's Heir, Cathleen Townsend, character, Inish Carraig, interview, Jo Zebedee, research, science fiction
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Cathleen Townsend 