20 Questions to help you develop your characters (11 - 20)
Francesco Francesco

20 Questions to help you develop your characters (11 - 20)

The simplest, most common and yet effective way to outline a complex character is with a questionnaire. Try to Google it. No, really. I’ll wait. Done? As you might have noticed, there are millions of pages with lists of questions that vary from 6 to 300 or more; and I’m not ashamed to say that I’ve indulged in a ridiculous number of them.

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20 Questions to help you develop your characters (1 - 10)
Francesco Francesco

20 Questions to help you develop your characters (1 - 10)

The simplest, most common and yet effective way to outline a complex character is with a questionnaire. Try to Google it. No, really. I’ll wait. Done? As you might have noticed, there are millions of pages with lists of questions that vary from 6 to 300 or more; and I’m not ashamed to say that I’ve indulged in a ridiculous number of them.

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5 Newsletters I’m not ready to unsubscribe from in 2022
Francesco Francesco

5 Newsletters I’m not ready to unsubscribe from in 2022

While I try to summon the digital spirit of Marie Kondo—I needed a Christmas Miracle to go through my Instapaper list of articles—I unsubscribed from all the newsletters I didn’t have time to read, remaining with only 5 worthy survivors.

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5 Magazines that Have Rejected Me in 2021
Francesco Francesco

5 Magazines that Have Rejected Me in 2021

even if none of the magazines listed below published me, they all kindly replied letting me know that they had at least read my submission. Some of them sent back words of encouragement, some have been a bit more robotic; but they all replied.

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Top 10 Books of 2021
Francesco Francesco

Top 10 Books of 2021

Another year, another endless list of books I was supposed to pick up, a list of books I never finished and, though not as long as the other two, a list of books I have indeed read.

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How to Set Writing Goals
Francesco Francesco

How to Set Writing Goals

If you don't have a 50,000 words manuscript saved on your preferred cloud storage service, you have failed NaNoWriMo. You've set a too ambitious writing goal and for some reason, you couldn't deliver. Just like me.

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