Writing Secondary Characters

In this episode, the Write Pack explores Secondary Characters:

- What are secondary characters?

- Making other main characters in one book secondary characters in another book.

- How to develop secondary characters and avoid cardboard cut outs.

 

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What Instincts do You Need to Develop as a Writer?

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In this episode, the Write Pack explores what instincts should a writer develop? Here is a start:

- Curiosity

- Observation

 - Second Sense Editor

- Imagination

- Artistic Eye

And many more….

 

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What is Steampunk

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In this episode, the Write Pack explores the unique subgenre of Science Fiction by asking, “What is Steampunk?”

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Unleashing the Imagination

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In this episode, the Write Pack celebrates the birthday of J.M Barrie and unleashing the imagination as shown in Barrie’s novel, Peter Pan.

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The Art of Writing Subtext

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In this episode, the Write Pack explores writing subtext.

Why is subtext more important than the words on the page?How does work?What is subtext?Is there unintended subtext?How do you slip themes or philosophies without “being in the face” as an issue book?How do members of the Write Pack approach writing subtext?

 

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Fixing Messy Manuscripts

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In this episode the Write Pack discusses the hardest part of writing: editing your work. Once you have written your first draft, now what do you do?

Members of the Write Pack discuss their methods, successes and failures.Discuss how to make sure that your story maintains the promise it made at the beginning of the story.Explores some success and failures of delivering the story promise in the geek culture.

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Shakespeare and Getting it on Paper

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In this episode the Write Pack explores the life and writings of the Bard for the month of his birth and death.

Explore how William Shakespeare has changed our language and storytelling.Shakespeare’s life and works.Write Pack Radio’s Step 4. Get it on paper

• No one can read the book in your head--not even you

• Take baby steps. If you write even a hundred words a day, you’ll have a book in two years

• Write every day--make writing an important part of everyday life

• You can’t improve a page that doesn’t exist

• Finish it and put it aside until you can be objective

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Marketing Tips

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In this episode the Write Pack teams up with Bob Baker and explores the ways to market our writing beyond just the books store.

Do you have a marketing plan?How do you drive your readers to your book?

 

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Books vs. Film Adaptions: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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In this episode the Write Pack explores successful and not so well done film and television adaptions of books and comic book series

 

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Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing

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In the opening episode of the third season, The Write Pack explores Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing:

WritePut one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.Remember when people tell you somethings wronf or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.Fix it. Remember that sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.Laugh at your own jokes.The main rule of writing is that it you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best as you can.

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