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Marius H Visser

So many a time you open your writing software full of enthusiasm and the bravado to take on a raging bull. Only to find you staring down the blinking cursor for hours on end. A writers nightmare...

How do you get past this you ask? Well, the only way I have come to beat this is to literally start writing anything that pops into your head. This post started with a blinking cursor come to think about it. But now as I write I can feel the creative juices starting to build in my head. I am starting to see dragons jump out from the pages, I can feel the sword slicing through the flesh of my components...

Now is the best time to start writing. I can publish this post and head on over to my novel and continue after the infuriating ordeal with the cursor. And now I know what needs to happen next. No delay.


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Marius H Visser

Characters are often plagued with too much perfection, all because the author likes the character too much. The need to break the character down somewhat to a level of imperfection that would suit the story and the character himself/herself sometimes goes unwanted. But is a need nonetheless. A character cannot be perfect, otherwise, there is no room to grow. Let your character strive to be better, to become perfect. But ulitmately probably never will.

Imagine 007 with no weakness for woman, or Iron Man without his arrogance, they would be very flat characters.


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