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We all have the same amount of it. Until a year or so ago, I drove an eighty-mile paper route every morning. It was so much fun! Not. Get up at oh-dark-thirty seven days a week (or don’t go to bed at all), be at the drop site by 2:00, spend four hours driving with your Continue reading Time  …if I hear the phrase “story arc” one more time! Or “character arc.” Or any other reference to an arc as it might relate to writing. An arc is a section of a circle. It’s a very simple beast. Any arc can be fully and completely described by naming three points anywhere along its length. On the Continue reading I Swear I’m Going to Start Screaming… Aliens and Spaceships and Axe Heads, Oh My! The protagonist of my current work-in-progress picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be full of conspiracy theories, junk science, and old-fashioned stupidity. He regales my poor protag for miles, and eventually gets thrown out. But writing him, believe it or not, was pretty easy, because all Continue reading What’s The Stupidest Thing You’ve Ever Heard? I must admit, I have a fairly mechanistic approach to character names. That approach is the US Social Security Administration’s "Popular Baby Names" site. Just go to your character’s birth year and pick one. For a main character, I’ll go down the list a ways, say 25th to 30th most popular, thus ensuring myself that Continue reading How Do You Name a Demon, Anyway? Too little is not enough, too much is overkill, and just right is just right. Seems pretty simple, right? But the questions don’t end there, they begin there. I got an email from a reader which asks some of these questions. I’m paraphrasing a bit, because the email was pretty specific to a particular project, but Continue reading Riding the Seesaw – Character Descriptions in Fiction I was recently taken to task for an opinion expressed in one of my short stories, Yellowbird Diner, available as a PDF on my website, www.levimontgomery.com. There were three tracks I could have pursued in defending myself: 1) that the person who is credited with the opinion in question isn’t even a Continue reading Don’t Shoot Me – I’m Just the Keyboard Man |
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