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May
20th
2019

Being a Better Writer: Character Voice · 8:13pm May 20th, 2019

Hey readers! Welcome back!

I know. It’s been a slow week from your perspective. The last major post here was another Being a Better Writer post last Monday. I said nothing else all week.

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Dec
11th
2018

Being a Better Writer: Keeping Details in Line · 12:50am Dec 11th, 2018

Dec
3rd
2018

Being a Better Writer: Practice Makes Perfect · 7:42pm Dec 3rd, 2018

A shorter post today, folks, as I’ve got a time-crunch today. Christmas season is hear, and that means I’ve got shifts at my part-time leading well past midnight pretty much every day this week. It’s a brutal holiday season, ho ho.

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May
11th
2020

Being a Better Writer: The Subplot Before the Main Plot · 8:58pm May 11th, 2020

AKA, the lead-in.

Welcome back readers! I hope you had a wonderful weekend, and didn’t forget until too late that it was Mother’s Day! Quarantine or not, I hope that all of us had time in our day this weekend for our mothers!

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Jun
26th
2023

Being a Better Writer: Writing About Disasters · 9:41pm Jun 26th, 2023

Nov
15th
2021

Being a Better Writer: Enough Is Enough, It’s Time to Release · 10:25pm Nov 15th, 2021

Welcome back readers, to another Monday! Apologies for the lateness of today’s post; I was up late last night desperately trying to secure a Series X console before the hands of scalpers.

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Jun
21st
2021

Being a Better Writer: Tension and Slow Pacing · 9:35pm Jun 21st, 2021

Hello readers! Welcome back!

So updates! I did manage to hit my quota last Friday despite being a little sick. And while I wouldn’t put it past that segment to need a little editing, overall it was a pretty kick-butt segment of [REDACTED] battling [REDACTED].

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Jun
27th
2022

Being a Better Writer: Leaving Unanswered Questions · 9:24pm Jun 27th, 2022

Hello readers! We’re back with another Monday installment of Being a Better Writer! And we’ve got an interesting topic to cover today. One that can be a little contentious depending on your audience.

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May
6th
2022

Officially Out of the Office - Scheduled Posts Each Monday · 6:29pm May 6th, 2022

All right folks, this is it! With this post, I am officially checking out of the office! I'm off to Alaska for a change of pace. But content isn't stopping while I'm gone.

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May
8th
2023

Being a Better Writer: Building Governments and Ruling Powers for Fiction · 11:18pm May 8th, 2023

Once more we gather writers, for another installment of Being a Better Writer! And today’s topic is an interesting one, once again written in advance as I am out and off of the grid for the time being. Today’s post grew out of another potential topic, but felt better suited to the aim of Being a Better Writer as a whole, IE that of improving the writing capabilities of those who follow Being a Better Writer.

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Oct
30th
2023

Being a Better Writer: Building the Right Subplot · 8:08pm Oct 30th, 2023

Welcome writers! Another Monday is upon us, and so it is time once more discuss writing in all its various forms and shapes. Or rather, a specific form and shape, as we don’t have time to discuss everything in a single installment of Being a Better Writer.

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Jun
28th
2021

Being a Better Writer: Live Q&A Event! · 6:43pm Jun 28th, 2021

Hello readers! And welcome back to something different! Not completely different, since A) we’re not doing that bit and B) we’ve done this before … But this will be only the second time.

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Nov
1st
2021

Being a Better Writer: Traditions and Games · 9:41pm Nov 1st, 2021

Hello readers! Welcome back to another installment of Being a Better Writer, coming to you all on the first day of November, just ahead of the Mariah Carey storm.

You know the one I’m talking about. It nears, even now. Some have already fallen prey to it.

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Apr
4th
2016

Being a Better Writer: Character Motivations · 9:27pm Apr 4th, 2016

Why do your characters do what they do?

It seems like a simple question. And, likewise, a simple answer. Why do they do what they do? Because they want to.

Okay, but why?

Character motivation is one of those topics that seems pretty straightforward. You have a character, and you want them to do something, so they need a reason to do it, right?

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Sep
12th
2016

Being a Better Writer: Avoiding a Sagging Middle · 3:20pm Sep 12th, 2016

All right! And we’re back with today’s follow-up to one of our more recent posts! Remember? The one about health?

Okay, I’m actually joking. This isn’t a post about that. But it was too good an opportunity a joke to pass up. Sagging middle … anyway …

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Apr
18th
2017

Being a Better Writer: The Heavy Hand of the Writer · 4:33pm Apr 18th, 2017

So … I picked that title because it looked and read better than my other alternatives. One of which was “The Heavy Hand of Whatever” which really didn’t inspire a lot of confidence. Another was the several knit-together topics that this post was to cover … which would leave you, readers, with a giant string to look at. Then the last was a giant string (______) in place of “the Writer.”

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Jan
2nd
2017

Being a Better Writer: The Death Spiral · 7:54pm Jan 2nd, 2017

Real cheery title for the first post of 2017, isn't it?

Seriously though, welcome to 2017! I hope it feels like as much of a breath of fresh air for the rest of you as it does from me. Though in my case, it's mostly because I took the last two weeks off.

I know. I took an actual vacation. Cleared games out of my backlog, read a bunch of books, and everything. And you know what's funniest about it?

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Mar
6th
2017

Being a Better Writer: Digging Deeper With Characters · 10:06pm Mar 6th, 2017

Yes! Being a Better Writer has returned to Monday!

Honestly, I think I just got lucky this week in not being called into work today, but even so, it feels good to be working on BaBW on a Monday again! This is the day when it's supposed to go down ... Well, up, technically.

Today is also the first day we'll be going off of Topic List IX! That's right, new list, new topics!

Which brings us to today's topic of choice: digging deeper with characters!

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Mar
27th
2017

Being a Better Writer: Empathy for Your Characters · 10:24pm Mar 27th, 2017

Greetings from Alaska, readers! Yes, that's right, I'm home visiting my parents for a few days. And old friends. It's fantastic. I flew in Sunday morning, after a nice long layover in Seattle which was most of my Saturday. As usual, the trip to my hometown was roughly a full day's journey. That was okay, however, as I'd brought my WiiU with me.

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Apr
7th
2018

Shadow, Ads, and Other News · 8:58pm Apr 7th, 2018

Hey guys, Max here with a couple of noteworthy news updates!


I’ll get to the first and most exciting one first. Shadow of an Empireis now in Beta! The Beta Readers invites have been sent out, several readers have already responded and received their links to the Master Beta Read document, and things are in motion!

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