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So Your Character is From Taiwan … Featuring Astrid Kaniele

It’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a …

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Writing Lessons from Movies: Once Upon a Forest

To compete against Disney, 20th Century Fox had an animation studio in the 90’s that released films such as Fern Gully, The Pagemaster, Anastasia, and Once Upon a Forest. These films didn’t gross too well in the boxoffice, so unfortunately the animation studio shut down, but that doesn’t mean these films aren’t remembered. These were …

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Beautiful People #26 ~ Author Writing Process Edition

It’s time for this month’s Beautiful People! Yay! This is a link-up hosted by Paperfury and Further Up and Further In where you answer questions about your characters. I participated in Beautiful People for the last three years every month. Pretty crazy. XD This link-up has been just so helpful with character development.  This month’s …

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So Your Character is From Japan … Featuring Mami Suzuki + Noriko @ Diary of a Bookfiend

It’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a …

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Villain Necrologies and Debacles: DreamWorks Animation Edition

Villains meet their demises in so many different ways. For some this means death, for other this means an unfortunate incapacitating situation. Writers put a lot of thought into how their antagonist finally fails, but which way is best for your villain? That all depends on so many different circumstances, including audience and genre. This …

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So Your Character is From South Korea … Featuring Lizzy @ The Bent Bookworm + Jiyeon @ JJellie’s Journal

It’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a …

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