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FIGHT FOR YOUR WRITE: PART 4 (CHARACTERIZATION)

By: Craig Dilouie

Good characters are absolutely vital in horror fiction. They’re the key to empathy, which is vital to project the experience of horror. Characters stand in for the reader. What they feel, the reader should feel. If a good character feels genuine terror, so will the reader.

First, we have to make sure the reader cares about what happens to him or her.

How do we do that? Author Talia Vance says, “Make your characters relatable, likable and give them a personal stake in the outcome.”

Author/Story consultant Michael Hauge identifies five ways to make a character relatable for the reader…

Read the full article HERE!

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again:

1. Karen Woodward: Six Ways To Begin A Story http://ow.ly/DFfE6
2. 13 plot twists that utterly ruined good horror movies | Blastr http://ow.ly/DFfIs
3. Writability: How to Fast Draft http://ow.ly/DFfNC
4. Fiction University: Using Layers to Pre-Write Your Scenes http://ow.ly/DFfQd
5. How Writing Horror is like Writing Comedy - Writeonsisters.com http://ow.ly/DFfTx
6. The Scariest Moments in a Writer's Life - Women Writers, Women's Books : Women Writers, Women's Books http://ow.ly/DFfWr
7. Backstory: The More You Know, The Less I Have To | Kristen Lamb's Blog http://ow.ly/DFfZe
8. How to write a novel in a month, one day at a time http://ow.ly/DFg4j
9. 5 Marketing Mistakes That Beginning Fiction Writers Make by Jason Kong — The Book Designer http://ow.ly/DFg7I
10. 7 Tips for Staying Safe on Twitter — Guest: Marcy Kennedy | Jami Gold, Paranormal Author http://ow.ly/DFhEg
11. Be Mindful Of What You Post On Social Media: What Goes Online Stays Online! infographic http://ow.ly/DFi6h
12. BookMarketingBuzzBlog: Could You Pen 1,667 Words A Day For 30 Straight Days? http://ow.ly/DFij4
13. How to Get Traffic to Your Author Website: 30+ Tips for Discouraged Writers | Your Writer Platform http://ow.ly/DFipJ
14. Fright for your Write: Part 4 (Characterization) – Kobo Writing Life http://ow.ly/DFisf
15. Inserting Page Numbers and Running Heads | Catherine, Caffeinated http://ow.ly/DFiE1
16. Bad Advice for Writers! | The Passive Voice | http://ow.ly/DFiKm
17. Facebook Mobile Photo Updates: This Week in Social Media | Social Media Examiner http://ow.ly/DFiT7

Happy writing and running, Kathy