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Elisa is the chosen one. But she is also the younger of two...

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“I keep a notebook and I collect word debris.”

— Margaret Stohl

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Let’s take a moment to understand a basic rule of fiction.

A good character does not necessarily equate to a good person and that’s a-okay. There are plenty of fictional jerks, villains and antagonists that get loads of attention precisely because of their flaws. These flaws may not make them a great person or model citizen but they certainly make them an interesting character.

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To those of you who have read both my stories To Save a Kingdom and By Order of the King:

Some of you have been wondering how I picture my main characters:

In To Save a Kingdom, I picture Kai looking mostly like Miranda Raison:

In By Order of the King, I picture Anna looking mostly like Jessica Chastain:

*If you haven’t had the chance to read my stories, you can check them out at this link

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.

Joss Whedon

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… You learn and grow with your characters - don’t think there’s any special merit in having a lofty distance from them. Your books will always be about you to some degree - they will always reflect your view of the world in some way. In the end it doesn’t matter where your creativity comes from - whether research, imagination, real life - in the end you always write about what you know, wherever your knowledge has come from.

Anna Maxted

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Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

Neil Gaiman

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Anna Maxted

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The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

Penelope Lively (via writingadvice)

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I am so immersed in my characters that their motives are my own. When I write about a thief, I become one; when I write about Captain Penderton, I become a homosexual man.

Carson McCullers, on writing Reflections in a Golden Eye

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