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7 Tips for Introducing Your Characters by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
7 Tips for Introducing Your Characters
7 Tips for Introducing Your Characters Anybody Can Write a Novel Chapter 5 “Choosing and Designing Characters” – Section 3 “Introductions” With Links to Supplementary Material When a reader first picks up a book, they create an instant connection with the author of the story—formed through a required level of trust just so that the two of you can immerse yourselves in the world you have created. The writer and the reader are, at that point, friends or pleasant acquaintances; and at that moment of relationship and immersion into the realm of story, the characters become just as real as the reader/writer relationship. The writer, in this ...
Guide to Advanced Critiques by exarobibliologist, literature
Literature
Guide to Advanced Critiques
Intro
Advanced critique is as much an art as your deviations are art. It takes skill and the careful sculpting of ideas to make a comment into a helpful, discerning, judging piece of advice that will aid the deviant to create better art.
In recent years, advanced critiques have gotten a bad name and there are only a few left who understand or know how to write a good critique. And there are many who shy away from writing critiques for fear that they will be accused of flaming.
This goal of this guide is to train you on how to write a critique.
Step 1... check to see whether the deviant has requested an advanced critique. Just because someone is on DA does not mean that they want to be critiqued.
What a Critique is NOT
1. Critiques are not something that can be rushed. You must take time when writing them, or they will come out haphazard and of no benefit at all.
2. Critiques are not written ENTIRELY IN CAPS. Since the age of IM and chatrooms, using caps has been held
