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Use Mini-Frustrations to Propel Your Novel’s Character Forward – on the RMFW Blog

November 15, 2024 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

Frustration is a powerful emotion—so powerful, in fact, that it’s often the emotion that launches your novel’s main character into action. How can you use a series of mini-frustrations to build your character’s stress levels, increasing anticipation, tension, and suspense? Read my article on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog for tips: “Frustration—Your Character’s Catalyst.”

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: character, character building, emotion, frustration, suspense, tension

How Do Your Characters Handle Secrets? – on the RMFW blog

February 9, 2024 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

Your characters have secrets. How they keep them (or not), how they protect them, and how they are affected by them can be rich sources to mine for character development. Follow this link to see more, because that’s what I’m writing about on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog this month: “Let’s Talk About Secrets.”

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Character Development: Turning Strengths into Weaknesses (and Vice Versa) – On the RMFW Blog

January 12, 2024 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

We know we’re supposed to give our characters both strengths and weaknesses to make them more three-dimensional and realistic. But have you thought about how a character’s strength can become a weakness in certain situations? And how a weakness could become a strength? That’s what I’m talking about over on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers […]

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Sharing Experiences with Your Characters – On the RMFW Blog

November 8, 2023 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

In our writing, we often make our characters go through experiences we haven’t gone through ourselves, such as breaking a horse, picking a lock, riding in an ambulance, or frosting a wedding cake. It’s so easy to fall back on the internet and watch videos or read blog posts about how those experiences might feel. […]

Filed Under: writer's life, Writing Craft Tagged With: character

I Drifted in a Hellcat for Research Purposes Only. Honest.

May 26, 2023 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

“Write what you know,” they say. Well, the protagonist in one of my WIPs (works-in-progress, and yes, plural, because doesn’t everyone work on multiple novels at the same time? No? Hmmm…) is a committed lone wolf caught up in a controversy he’s not interested in being caught up in. There are bad guys. Missing friends. […]

Filed Under: writer's life Tagged With: character, research, vacation

How to Write Stories that Bore Your Readers – On the RMFW Blog

May 12, 2023 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

Are your stories too exciting? Are they keeping your readers up past their bedtimes? Are they causing book clubs to swoon? Well, fear not, gentle writer, for I have compiled a list of 10 ways you can suck the energy right out of your writing. If your dream is to craft a story so boring […]

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: character, dialogue, setting

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