Creating complex characters: Dolores in She’s Come Undone This week it’s Dolores Price’s turn in the complex characters spotlight. Dolores is the star of Wally Lamb’s debut novel, She’s Come Undone. She’s a character that I use often in the workshops and [...]
Flash fiction writing tips from Kathy Fish Delighted to welcome Kathy Fish to the blog for the first time today. Kathy is judging the 2018 RW Flash Fiction Prize and I got to ask her all about what she loves about flashing. Kathy, thanks for coming. As an award-winning flash fiction writer [...]
The third in this blog series, which is looking at memorable narrators and how we as writers can create them, is Cassie in As Far As You Can Go by Lesley Glaister. Everything about this novel is memorable even though how the plot would eventually play out was quite predictable. The oppressive and [...]
8 Flash Fiction Writing Tips I’ve been writing flash fictions for about six years now and reading tons of them, both for fun and for the entries into the competitions we run at Retreat West. Through the reading that I do for the competitions, I’ve come to understand a lot about what [...]
Creating complex characters: Bo in Exquisite This A-Z of characters blog series is looking at memorable narrators in novels and what has made them stick in my mind. It’s all based on the three Cs of character that I teach in our online courses and at various events and writing festivals. The [...]