Character-Building Challenge Day 2: Ten Question Interview

For the second day of the first Writer’s Digest Character-Building Challenge the prompt is to choose one of the character names from yesterday and ask that character ten questions. It’s going to be hard to choose just one. I liked a lot of the names I came up with yesterday, and they are all somehowContinue reading “Character-Building Challenge Day 2: Ten Question Interview”

Character-Building Challenge Day 1: Names

Happy first of March. Today is the first day of the first Writer’s Digest Character-Building Challenge. The first prompt is to create ten character names. New Character Names For today’s names I used my Character Creation Spreadsheet and a random number generator. Middle names made a big difference to me this morning, and when aContinue reading “Character-Building Challenge Day 1: Names”

Adapting to the Artistry of Artlessness

Contradictory Abstract Nouns (Photography Challenge) Today I’m looking at finding the artistry in artlessness and the artlessness in artistry. Artlessness has some interesting and unexpected meanings. Yes, it does mean without art, but it also means free from deceit, cunning, or craftiness; ingenuous 2. not artificial; natural; simple; uncontrived. And when I looked up ingenuous,Continue reading “Adapting to the Artistry of Artlessness”