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Research and the fiction writer
Copyright © 2013 Jerry Dunne This post looks at why the fiction writer benefits from research, the best way of handling research, and ends on a warning of how researched material may easily drown rather than enhance the story. Why … Continue reading
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A few thoughts on the inspiration behind character development
Copyright © 2015 Jerry Dunne Character does not arise in some pure form out of the writer’s imagination. The creative mind is influenced by a myriad of sources that gather in quantity and quality over a whole lifetime and arrives … Continue reading
Improving the character interview technique used by fiction writers
Copyright © 2013 Jerry Dunne In this post, we look at how the character interview technique is used as a means to help stimulate the fiction writer’s imagination in developing character. We see that the usual approach with this technique … Continue reading
Women protagonists/antagonists in the psychological crime story
Copyright © 2016 Jerry Dunne Why write psychological crime? explains the category of psychological crime referred to in this post. For female characters to engage in leading roles in our subgenre of psychological crime, it will undoubtedly mean that they … Continue reading
Why write psychological crime?
Copyright © 2015 Jerry Dunne I have just finished writing my second psychological crime novel, and here I’m happy to explain what I mean by this category of crime writing and why I choose to write in it as opposed … Continue reading
Tolkien’s the Hobbit shows what is meant by original fiction
Copyright © 2015 Jerry Dunne Derivative fiction is fiction that in content and style reads very similar to other such types of stories. Nothing about it really sticks out. An original story will have something that makes it different, even … Continue reading