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Basics Name (& pronunciation): Date of Birth (& age): Place of Birth: Gender:   Species/Racial Origin: Social Class/Community Status: Language: Family/Friends/Pets/Etc: Physical Description Height: Weight: Hair: Eyes: Limb Dexterity: Detailed Physical Description: Typical Clothing/Equipment: Personality/Attributes Personality/Attitude: Skills/Talents: Favourites/Likes: Most Hated/Dislikes: Goals/Ambitions: Strengths: Weaknesses: Fears: Hobbies/Interests: Regular Routine: Philosophy of Life: Attitude Toward Death:   Religion/Beliefs: Fetishes/Strange Behaviors: Most Instructive/Painful/Mem

DaGrblz's Process to Writing Chapters version 2 Step 1: Plot Planning Make a sort of timeline for your whole story. -Draw a line across a paper -Start the first entry at the very beginning, but write tiny and sideways, so there is room for every event on your timeline. -This timeline gives general ideas of what will happen in the story. -Now go back and mark the events of bigger importance and/or indicates a time skip/flashback in the story. -This organizes my thoughts of where to begin and end a chapter. Step 2:  Chapter Planning Write out the specific events of the chapter you are about to write. -Get a piece of noteboo

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 7 Steps to Creating a Great Protagonist Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 3 “Characters” – Section 3 “The Protagonist” With Links to Supplementary Material So I've talked about a couple types of protagonists, and how to create them: Heroes and Antiheroes. As well as what types of Character to Use or to Avoid. But not every Protagonist will be a hero or antihero. Today, I'm going to discuss what universal attributes make a great protagonist, that will drive your

I recently solicited my watchers to ask me writing questions that I would then attempt to answer in a writing guide such as this. This article is my first response, and there will be many more to come. I've been asked to give advice on ways a writer can begin to put words on a page. The bottom line is as simple as this: sit your butt down and write. Duh, right? It's the only way I know to actually write. Sure, sitting your butt in a chair is easy, but getting your fingers to move and stay moving is a challenge. Here are three things that have helped me. 1) Have a goal. Your goal can be as simple as "describe the person in this picture" o

Basic Statistics Name: Nickname: Meaning of name: Origin of name: Age: Sex: Blood type: Nationality: Ethnicity: Race: Sexual Orientation: Current status: Political Party: Police/Criminal/Legal record: Socioeconomic level as a child: Socioeconomic level as an adult: Birth date: Birth place: Current residence: Occupation: Title/Rank: Hobbies/Pastimes: Talents/Skills/Powers: Past History Hometown: First Memory: Most important childhood event that still affects him/her: Why/How? Other memories/events that still affects him/her and why/how: Past failures s/he would be embarrassed to have people know about and why: Bigg

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Character Reference Sheet-ness Basically this reference sheet covers pretty much everything a person would ever need to know about your character.. and then some. -Basics- Let’s face it. If somebody were to just glance over the reference sheet, at least you can feel some reassurance in knowing that they got the bare minimum Name (Nickname): Age: Please if you’re going to give your character some ungodly, few centuries old, age, make sure to include what age they looks like. Otherwise all shall assume they appear to be a rumpled piece of leather, ran over by some sort of moving vehicle, after being regurgitated by a cat. Obvio

The purpose of this exercise is to see how much you've differentiated each of your main characters' voices from each other. How to Use Pick a few major characters in your story. (I recommend using between 3 and 6.) For each of the numbered prompts below, choose what each character would say in that circumstance. You may want to write a few sentences of dialogue from that character or a quick internal monologue. These lines are meant to generate short pieces of dialogue (about 1-5 sentences), as it's easiest to compare lines to each other that way. If you start writing long paragraphs or another character's reply to your character, then sto

100 Word Challenge List: 1. Introduction 2. Poison 3. Abandoned 4. Crisis 5. Dream 6. Shooting Star(s) 7. Mist 8. Hopeless 9. Obsession 10. Dreamcatcher 11. Rose(s) 12. Clouds 13. Revenge 14. Insanity 15. Disappear 16. Shadow 17. Darkness 18. Illuminate 19. Dusk 20. Dawn 21. Quest 22. Thrilling 23. Pillar 24. Autumn 25. Teddy Bear 26. Snuff 27. Prism 28. Rescue 29. Broken 30. Wall(s) 31. Beautiful 32. Tonight 33. Empty 34. Festive 35. Melody 36. Purple 37. Panic Switch 38. Sanctuary 39. Spell 40. Rejection 41. Sword 42. Love 43. Yellow 44. Boogeyman 45. Downstream 46. Fire Ball 47. Challenge 48.

Writing Without Confusing Yourself (Or Your Readers) Writing is a very personal, individual undertaking. Everybody approaches the activity a bit differently from the next guy. Some people can come up with concept, plot, characters, and everything else and just sit down and write. Others need to take time to figure out what's going on; what's going to happen in the story, and how it all fits together. Others still will find themselves getting stuck somewhere along the middle, losing track of everything or changing an idea mid-way through, or never know how to end. These are the people for whom this has been put together. Those of you who can

Hello, folks! The purpose of this exercise is to delve deep into a character's mind and tease out interesting eccentricities about them, the bits and pieces of unique information that make them special. Each question is designed to help think about the character more and understand them. Whether you're responding to one question or all of them, hopefully your character speaks to you all through it! PERSONALITY PROFILE    1. People don't behave the same way all the time. In fact, they generally have a mask for every social group -- friends, family, business. Sometimes they have a different mask for different groups of friends. How does your

-------- Original Message ----------- "I can't write an action/fight scene worth a crap. Mind you, I can usually imagine them, I just can't write them." -- Wanna Do a Fight Scene. If you can imagine it - you can write it. The easiest way is by doing it in LAYERS. The Quick and Dirty Method for writing Action Scenes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Start with a list of ACTIONS & Reactions < in that order. -- Actions ALWAYS go before Reactions. (IMPORTANT! Each CHARACTER gets a SEPERATE LINE. ~ NEVER clump the separate actions of two different characters in the same paragraph or the reader will get confused as to who is doing what very quickly.) ~~~~~

Before you start writing the most tragic back story ever for your character, I’d like to point out that not all good characters need angst. Its best if used sparingly and not the main focus of the plot. Also, just because someone’s OC has an angsty past, does not immediately make said character a Mary-Sue. If they have angst for all the wrong reasons, then they are a Mary-Sue.   If you are writing certain types of trauma (rape, child abuse, ect.) try to include a trigger warning, unless it is a fanfiction of something that possesses the same exact type of trauma. Part one: Writing Angst in General First decide why you want to gi

1. Everyone found out 2. Outsider 3. Old-fashioned 4. It's always been this way 5. I know you did it 6. Hidden 7. Singer 8. While the music was playing... 9. He smiled, hiding the way he really felt 10. Perfect 11. Blue 12. Map 13. Had I just gone mad, or did I really see that? 14. Expensive 15. Complaining 16. Ship 17. Secret 18. Just let it go 19. Flying 20. The little kid suddenly started screaming 21. Memory 22. Violence 23. Scarf 24. Snowman 25. She raised her voice 26. I'm serious 27. Annoying 29. A dream I had last night 30. Stairs 31. A grin 32. We both knew 33. Curtains 34. Earrings 35. Laughter 36. Everyone was dancing, but no one n

Please copy and paste this into a Word document or deviation. Then highlight the information after the colons and type over it. Setting Time/Era: Exact year or approximate time Name of Country: For fun, you could alter the name of an old country to amuse more educated readers. For example, I altered the Assyrian Empire's name for a conquering people to evoke images of brutality and Mesopotamia. Geography: Keep track of all the places you mention and their approximate locations. I find it handy to draw a rough map of the area. Landscape: Trees, soil, water, buildings... Imagine you were flying over the place in an airplane. What would you

~Basic Bio Breakdown~ NAME: You should provide the character’s full name, even if it’s not what they go by. If they go by something else, include it in the same category like so: Joshua “Josh” Nickelson. AGE: If your character is in a timeline where it’s simple enough just to list one age or a range of ages for them, then by all means, please do so. If you have a long, complicated series or a lot of time that passes in your book, show a birth year for your character instead—something we can measure things to. APPEARANCE: This should contain everything there is to know about your character visually withou

Basic Statistics Full Name: Reason or meaning of name: Nickname: How'd they get it?: Age: Date of Birth: Zodiac: Species: Gender: Sexual Orientation:   When did they realize this?:Nationality: Hometown: Current Residence: Occupation: For how long?: Do they like his/her job?: Salary: AbilitiesIf they had an element, what would it be?: Can they use it?: What animal best represents them?: Hand-to-Hand capability: When did they start learning?:Who taught them?:Weapons training: When did they start learning?:Who taught them?:Physical strength: Speed: Planning: Powers: Family Any significant ancestors?: Grandparents (descri

Introduction First things first, a quick introduction coming from myself. My name is Jade Choung, but I am better known as mzzazn / mzzy on the world wide web. I am an artist that primarily focuses on digital media. My art work produced for income is of the anime/manga genre. A majority of my publicity is derived from deviantART.com. I have held the position of Community Volunteer (CV) on this popular art website in the past. A community volunteer is pretty much a moderator. This means, there's a handful of tasks given to a CV on this website, but one that last a huge impact on me was selecting Daily Deviations ('spotlights' for art pieces t

8 Tips for Becoming Self-motivated to Write Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 1 “Beginning to Write” – Section 4 “Self-Discipline” With Links to Supplementary Material I've talked before about dealing with writer's block, and different techniques for conquering it. But how do we write diligently and with self-motivation, given the overwhelming amount of distraction around us and the difficulty in becoming self-motivated? Today, I'm going to give some of the strategies that I have found to help me the most, so that you can try them or even modify them to fit your own personal strengths and vulnerabilities.

Basic Statistics Name: Country: Species: Political Party: Socioeconomic level as a child: Socioeconomic level as an adult: Birth date: Birth place: Current residence: Describe their dwelling/house: Describe their bedroom: Occupation: Title/Rank: Hobbies/Pastimes: Talents/Skills/Powers: Birth order: Family: Past History Hometown: First Memory: Childhood: Most important childhood event that still affects him/her: Why/How?: Other memories/events that still affects him and why/how: Past failures he would be embarrassed to have people know about and why: Favorite parent: Why?: Biggest role model: Why?: Physical Character

REALITY CHECK! Writing for Profit It's Not just an Adventure - It's a JOB. Whoever told you that writing fiction for publication - for money - is supposed to be Artistic, Fun, or Easy -- LIED. Writing may look artistic, and creative writing certainly is artistic (that's why they call it Creative Writing,) but writing for a living; writing for publication with the intent to get paid on a regular basis is NOT artistic, it's NOT always fun, and it certainly is NOT easy. Writing for publication is WORK. Sure, some of it is fun, but the bulk of it is mind-bending, eye-straining work. Don't get me wrong, creativity is part of the job of writi