Parker Hankins

Parker Hankins started the topic Character Interview in the forum Characters 7 years, 10 months ago

This is a list of questions to help develop your characters and give them a unique voice. Of course, you don’t have to answer them all.

Name:

Background:

Birthday:

Place of birth:

Parents:

What was important to the people who raised him:

Siblings:

Economic/social status growing up:

Ethnic background:

Places…[Read more]

Parker Hankins replied to the topic Crazy Writers, Artists, and Dragons in the forum General Writing Discussions 7 years, 10 months ago

You know you’re a writer when you wish to be kidnapped and you hang around supposedly dangerous people on purpose.

When you see someone’s hair at the grocery and begin thinking of how you would describe the colors and style.

When you criticize everyone’s stories, movies, and books because their characters weren’t developed as good as you thou…[Read more]

Parker Hankins started the topic Prologue in the forum Critiques 7 years, 11 months ago

What does everyone think of this prologue? This is from a mystery book I’m writing.

Prologue

A man gazed out into the distance. His squinted eyes swept across the scene. Trees, full of leaves were planted in rows, the sun illuminating their leaves to a neon-green. Farther on were mountains, rising high into the air and sloping low to create a…[Read more]

Jane Maree replied to the topic Meraki: the Guild of Awesomeness in the forum Announcements 7 years, 11 months ago

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Jane Maree started the topic Why Critique? in the forum Critiques 7 years, 11 months ago

Critiquing is one of the BEST ways to grow as a writer. A new set of eyes can see the faults and problems in my novels and chapters far better than I can. And if I critique someone else’s writing, I get to see what makes it good and what doesn’t work, and thus be able to apply that new knowledge to my own writing.

A couple of quick notes:

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