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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 st...

On Writing Villains: My Approach    I have to be honest here. When I watch a film or read a novel or series, as much as I enjoy and root for the hero or protagonist (and in the end I truly do want to see good prevail, since it seems to only really happen in fiction in a satisfactory manner), very often the character that tends to steal the greatest part of my interest and still lingers in my mind long after the story ends is the bad guy (or gal).     Part of the beguile I suppose stems from morbid curiosity, the same way most people like to report on and sensationalize disasters in the news instead of on more normal everyday affairs. Some...