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Creating Compelling Characters (pt 1)

This series explains how to use the Character Template to craft compelling characters. It emphasizes the importance of authentic and relevant physical descriptions that add depth and meaning. The template offers opportunities for symbolism and character development through subtle visual cues. Stay tuned for the next post on using the template for personality traits.

What’s in a name?

Today’s post delves into the impact of character names on storytelling. Names can reflect traits, cultural significance, and character evolution. Unique spellings and balancing realism versus fantasy are also important considerations. The post emphasizes the role of names in adding depth and intrigue to characters, inviting readers to share their own experiences.

Crafting Compelling Characters with a Character Template

This series introduces a character template for crafting engaging characters, covering physical descriptions, personality traits, motivations, and more. The template provides a solid foundation and practical prompts, making character creation more manageable. Readers can access the template to enhance their own writing, fostering unique storytelling voices. Explore character development together!

My Character template

I’m preparing a series of posting about how I use a character template to help me create and manage characters in my writing.

For anyone who has already subscribed, here is the full template if you want to follow along in the posting series.

GAI & the creative process (part 4)

In my last post, I was less than satisfied with the motivations and background generated by the model for the female elf in the story. It felt like it drew on too many cliche’s common to the fantasy genre. The next prompt is a direction to expand on a specific paragraph from the previous output:Continue reading “GAI & the creative process (part 4)”

GAI & the creative process (part 3)

Continuing on from my last post, let’s see what other ideas can be mined from my GAI session. Continuing to the next prompt: Why does Roran seek a financial gain from his efforts? How does it compete with his sense of adventure and curiosity? Once again, since I’m still in the same chat-session, the modelContinue reading “GAI & the creative process (part 3)”

GAI & the creative process (part 2)

Continuing on from my last post, let’s see if we can modify the prompt provided to my model to generate better content or provide additional ideas for exploring in the story. Following the output from my first prompt, I added the following: Expand on Roran’s motivation for entering into the woods. Make him much moreContinue reading “GAI & the creative process (part 2)”

Using GAI to jumpstart your creative process

There are a lot of fear mongering articles about Generative AI subverting the role of creatives such as actors, screenwriters, and other authors. While the fear is real, I’m not convinced the threat is. Rather than taking the articles against GAI at face value, I wanted to explore what the current state of the artContinue reading “Using GAI to jumpstart your creative process”

Writing a mind-worm

As authors, we all want readers to want to come back to our story to either re-read it, or to eagerly await the next tale in the series. Commercial science fiction and fantasy seem to have raised the bar for these types of engaging tales with truly epic arcs. I call them ‘mind-worm’ tales. ToContinue reading “Writing a mind-worm”

Bringing it together: Why Erotic Sci-Fi

As I’ve reviewed several mainstream sci-fi stories and looked at the themes they share with erotica and erotic science fiction, it becomes apparent that all stories that tackle complex human interaction will touch on the erotic or open doorways into more explicit encounters and thoughts. It seems to support the concept that the most erogenousContinue reading “Bringing it together: Why Erotic Sci-Fi”