Victoria Grace Howell

9 Non-Character-Related Obstacles to Make Your Characters’ Lives Harder with Avatar: The Last Airbender

At this point in time, it’s the halfway point in NaNoWriMo. If you’re participating, you’re hard at work typing away at your novel. Perhaps you’re in a part that’s giving you difficulty. The scene feels a bit flat and you need more tension or you need something to drive your character to do something and …

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So Your is From Belgium … Featuring Bieke @ Quite the Novel Idea + Kathy @ Books and Munches

It’s time for this month’s So Your Character is From Another Country! This is a monthly or bimonthly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a crash …

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Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party and Other Florida October 2016 Adventures

If you couldn’t already tell from my past Monthly Summaries, this year has been a rough year for me. A lot of awesome things happened, but a lot of rough things happened and it seems to be a never-ending string of them. And you know that saying that it takes many good things to make …

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So Your Character Has Fibromyalgia … Featuring Sky @ Further Up and Further In

When I was younger, I’d seen commercials about fibromyalgia. It wasn’t until I found out someone close to me had it that I started looking into it a bit more. Furthermore, my character Elasa also has this condition. For those of your who don’t know according to Wikipedia, fibromyalgia is “is a medical condition characterised …

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6 Questions to Ask Yourself if a Point of View is Necessary for Your Novel

I’ve read many novels where the book had one or more point of views that just seemed there. They didn’t add any special element to the story or enhance the plot and seemed to even bog down the story. Every element to your story should point toward the main plot. If they don’t then they’re …

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