Amaranthine Forever

  One of the worst, most persistent problems in novice and professional literature alike is lack of character development, and it's a serious problem because the character is the eyes and heart of the reader throughout the entire story. It is possible to have a brilliant novel without having brilliant characters( Maximum Ride, Hunger Games) . But unless you're James Patterson or Suzanne Collins, lack of good characters will create a gaping hole in your novel that will be impossible to fill with a good plot or a good setting. So here are some of the main character problems. I can't really tell you how to get over them, because I'm not a professional or even greatly talented novelist, and my main characters probably suffer from these problems as well. What I'm hoping to do is make you aware of this problem in your own and in others novels. 1.) Who cares?(Lack of relation) To have a brilliant character, it has to be a character that your readers actually care...

Yay! Congrats to me! I've finally, finally reached 100 followers after about a year and a half of blogging! This makes me slower  at gaining followers, but I've always wanted 100 followers and now I have them. ;) I may think of something to celebrate later, but for now I will proceed with my regularly scheduled Nanowrimo post. :) This is the second in a series, so check out the first post here. What you've all been waiting for-a premature cover of my novel,+ a pitch: We believe in our city Perfect place, very pretty No bad leaders, no disease No poor people in the streets Everybody here is safe All you have to do is stay* I live under the sea, with the fish and the mermaids(jk). The Bubble. The last refuge for those driven underwater when the world went crazy and started persecuting Christians and revolutionaries and speakers of truth. Or at least that’s what I hear. How could I know for sure? I was born here, and I’ve never seen the surface. My dad desig...

You will never write an excellent, ready for publication, first draft in a month. No matter how hard or how careful you are, you'll never do it. And that's what NaNoWriMo's all about! NaNo focuses on "quantity, not quality."  The philosophy is that too many people get caught up in editing, trying to hard to make it perfect the first time, and they never finish. With NaNoWriMo, you don't have to worry about that! Oh, and by the way, I'm not going to explain what NaNoWriMo is or the rules. You can find that in their own website down below, which is written much more wittily than mine. And that's the key to NaNoWriMo, which starts in November. Sign up at www.nanowrimo.com . As NaNo comes around, the blogosphere will be swamped with posts about it, and I'll have to try to make my posts different from other people. I think a good tip for beginning Wrimos is: read up on all the different tips the former winners post about!  Differ...