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That Look

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon November 15, 2018
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This blog is part five of six in a series designed to hone character development of protagonists in your fiction.

I once tried to leave the house with bare lips. This did not go over well with my husband.

“Where is your lipstick?” he asked.

I applied some immediately. In red.

Yes, the lipstick has to be red. I can get away with a reddish burgundy shade if it matches my clothing, but only then.

When venturing out alone, I once left the house wearing sparkly gold lipstick with sable lip liner. All the women loved it. When I returned home and my husband saw my new look, he wanted to know what was going on with all the lip liner.

If I were to forget my lipstick when traveling, the situation would be classified as a beauty emergency, meaning an immediate trip to the nearest cosmetics counter. Since this has, ahem, happened, last week when my husband and I went away, he made sure I had packed my lipstick.

Cell phone or lipstick? That, my friend, is the question.

 

Your turn:

Has your character adopted a certain look? What is it?

Why does your character have this look? How does it make your character stand out or be special?

What do the people in the character’s life think of this look? Are their feelings positive or negative? Why, and does your character care?

What would make your character change this unique look?

 

Character Development Series:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six

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Read Old Books, Write New Books

By Bob Hostetleron November 14, 2018
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C. S. Lewis (maybe you’ve heard of him) famously commended the reading of old books: Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books…. None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall …

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Category: Craft, Reading, The Publishing Life, The Writing Life, Writing Craft

Vegan?

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon November 8, 2018
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This blog is part four of six in a series designed to hone character development of protagonists in your fiction. Pity the poor body under dietary restrictions. And haven’t we all been there at one time or another, for one reason or another? At home, we can manage. Never mind that the grocery store demands steep prices for specialty food. Because they can. Dining in public? An adventure but not …

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Busybodies and Redheads

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon November 1, 2018
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This blog is part three of six in a series designed to hone character development of protagonists in your fiction. One of my elementary school teachers, a blonde, gave birth to twin boys with bright red hair. Her husband was dark-haired. Perhaps in this day and age of sensitivity and multiracial adoptions, no one would flicker a proverbial eyelid at this development. Or at least they would blink …

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Character Quirks

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon October 25, 2018
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This blog is part two of six in a series designed to hone character development of protagonists in your fiction. When on its own and free to be itself, my hair curves into waves that the Atlantic Ocean would envy. Prodigious effort must be made to tame it. That prodigious effort originates in the form of a professional blowout. When trying to preserve a blowout, I have found that the perfect room …

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Lessons Learned As a Literary Agent

By Dan Balowon October 23, 2018
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Dan is leaving the agency at the end of this month to focus his attention on the work of Gilead Publishing, the company he started in 2016. Here are some parting thoughts. _____ I’ve been a literary agent for about 2,000 of the 13,000 total days spent working with and for book publishers over the last thirty-five years. It’s been a great experience, for sure; but as I look back at the thousands of …

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Prized Possessions

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon October 18, 2018
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This blog is part one of six in a series designed to hone character development of protagonists in your fiction. I own a few possessions that I prize though they aren’t worth much moneywise. These possessions represent the love someone has for me. That love is far more valuable to me than the few dollars I could earn from selling my memories on eBay. Take the small trinket box my grandmother …

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The Biggest Question About Your Book

By Dan Balowon October 16, 2018
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Authors are like small businesses. They have a finance department, a marketing department and an editorial wing. Then there’s the travel, human resources, IT and facilities management departments, all managed by one person, the author. While writing quality and author platforms are discussed at every writer’s conference, those aren’t the only factors contributing to the success or …

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Words That Still Get Misused

By Steve Laubeon October 8, 2018
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The infographic below from GrammarCheck.com is a fantastic reminder of commonly misused words. They did miss one. I have to pause every time before I write “affect” or “effect.” Vocabulary.com reads, “Most of the time, you’ll want affect as a verb meaning to influence something and effect for the something that was influenced. The difference between affect and …

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Planning Ahead

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon September 27, 2018
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Conference season is coming to a close as we approach the holidays. Our local Lowes store had Christmas trees up last weekend. Does this mean I’m already too late for fall cleaning? Because a budget of time and money is involved in considering whether to attend any conference, it’s not too early to think about your travel in 2019. Don’t miss early-bird savings that conferences may offer. Another …

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