There’s a trend in modern authors and books that greatly alarms me. Authors and characters alike are in danger of bottoming-out as growth is cast aside in favor of the dangerous alternative: affirmation. Let me show you what I mean. Let’s start with how this trend appears in fiction. The main characters in fiction rarely…
Character Writing
Writing the Character Behind The Genius
As the author of a mystery series which features an old school detective set in the early 1900’s in London, I speak from experience when I say that writing a detective can be a difficult task. In a lot of instances, or at least for me anyway, I had to create a character who was…