How to Create Unforgettable Characters for Your Stories

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One of the keys to a great story is the characters in it. The more unforgettable your characters are the longer they will stick in your readers mind and the more they will be talked about. You need to have several unforgettable characters in a story. It’s not just enough if you have one or two, almost all the important characters in your story need to have deep personalities. Your readers should be able to get to know them and understand them and feel the same emotions and feelings they feel while they read your story.

Before you write your story you need to plan out your characters, their personalities and traits thoroughly. The more you think about them and plan them, the more likely your readers will like them and remember them for a long time.

If you’re keen on learning how to create good characters then read all the tips below and practice them:-

1. Plan them ahead:

You shouldn’t just start imagining your characters while you write your story. If you do this it could affect the depth of your characters and make them appear less genuine. You need to plan them ahead and spend a lot of time imagining them and giving a lot of depth to their character.

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A Fantastic End to the 2011/2012 Barclays Premier League Season

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If you’re a football fan, especially of the Barclays Premier League, you would have spent Sunday watching the last day of the season when all the games kicked off at the same time (3:00 PM UK Time). There was a lot at stake on this day – there was the close competition between Manchester United and Manchester City for the Barclays Premier League Title as they were both level on points. Tottenham tried to go past Arsenal and gain automatic champions league qualifying by finishing third and Newcastle tried to go past Tottenham and qualify for the champions’ league qualifying round.

There was the relegation battle between Bolton and QPR and the competition between Everton and Liverpool to be the top club in Merseyside. But as expected the main focus was on the tussle for the title between Manchester United and Manchester City. Both teams were level on points but Manchester City had a better goal difference hence they were on top.

The tussle for the title…

Manchester City were expected to win the title as they had to play at their home stadium, “City of Manchester Stadium,” against QPR who are placed at 17th in the table. QPR were expected to put on a fight, because if Bolton won their game and QPR lost their game QPR would get relegated. Even then Manchester City were expected to win quite comfortable. Manchester United had to play Sunderland at the Stadium of Light and even if Manchester United won their game, them winning the league, depended upon Manchester City’s result.

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Should You Give Away Your Facebook Password to Your Employers

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A few days ago I read an article on Mashable, “What to do When a Potential Employer Asks For Your Facebook Password” by Tony Morrison – this article was in response to the article “Job Seekers Beware: Employers May Ask to See Your Facebook Account” by Alissa Skelton. Here Alissa points out how employers are requesting potential employees to give them their facebook usernames and passwords at job interviews.

Do you think this is right?

I think this is very wrong and a complete misuse of power. What will the employer gain by looking at the persons profile – will they find out more about their personal life, what they do in their free time, what sort of pictures they have on their profiles, etc. How will their company gain from this information?

What a person hides on their facebook profiles is nobody’s business. The only thing strangers and employers who don’t know you should be able to see, is what’s visible to the public.

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The Chocolate Forest

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In the chocolate forest

Lived a chocolate man

Everything he touched

Turned into chocolate

 

The trees were of chocolate

The bushes were of chocolate

The leaves were of chocolate

 

The birds and monkeys fed on chocolate berries

The deer fed on the chocolate leaves

The squirrels fed on chocolate hazelnuts

Kids climbed up trees and fed on chocolate apples

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Orange and Chocolate Scones With Cream

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Chocolate and orange are the best of friends. They taste so wonderful together. Have you ever combined these two flavours with a scone? How do you think they will taste?

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How to Come up With Fantastic Story Ideas

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Whether you’re writing a short story, a novel, a book or an article, you always need a good story idea. A good story idea is the basic necessity of writing anything. An idea will help you plan your writing and write an attention grabbing headline which will help you continue and finish writing an amazing story or article.

Sometimes it can be hard to come up with good story ideas, but by trying out the tips below it can become really easy to come up with good story ideas which can be used in the present and the future. These tips and tricks have helped me come up with many ideas for all the stories, books, articles and novels I have written.

Tips to come up with good story ideas:

Brainstorm Continuously: When you brainstorm for ideas, do it without thinking. The best way to generate ideas is to do it continuously, without stopping the flow. Our minds work in two phases, one of them is the creative phase and the other is the controlling phase. In the creative phase you create ideas, plans, etc. In the controlling phase your mind checks to see if the ideas you have created are good enough or if they need to be discarded.

The creative phase is sometimes known as writing with the heart and the controlling phase is sometimes known as writing with the head or mind.

So when you create ideas it’s best to create them with your heart continuously instead of controlling them with your head; as when you start controlling it, the number of good ideas you get will be limited. So create the ideas freely without making any effort to control it. Think up as many ideas as you can and write them down, even if some of them aren’t good enough and after you finish writing all of them, fish out the good ones from the bad ones – go for quantity and use the quality ideas you get from this quantity and leave out the bad ones.

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Crunchy Cornflake, Raisin and Chocolate Clusters

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Cornflake can make an amazing breakfast. All you need to do is add a bit of milk, sugar and maybe some fruit.  All of this together is just so delicious. But did you know you could use cornflakes to make delicious chocolate clusters by adding chocolate, butter and raisins and maybe some nuts too?

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Jack The Homework Eater – My New Book

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Jack the homework eater is my latest book. I have been working on it for about a month now. The idea had been percolating in my mind and I was finally able to put my thoughts on paper.

The Plot…

Alex is scared of dogs. He gets really angry with his parents, when they adopt a British Bulldog called Jack. He tries his best to avoid Jack the Bulldog. But then he learns a secret about Jack. He learns that Jack is no ordinary dog, Jack’s a homework eater. This special ability of Jack to eat homework helps him earn Alex’s affection.

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Read The First Two Chapters Of My New Book White Paper Marketing For Free

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The first two chapters of my new book white paper marketing which I have been working on with Lawrence Harte and Carolyn Luck have been released. You can now download and read these two chapters for free.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS FOR FREE.

Make sure you read the entire sample as there is a surprise waiting for you at the end.

The book is published by Althos Publishing. More information about the book is available on the publisher’s website and imittcopy.com – my company website .

Simple Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

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Don’t you love chocolate chip cookies? Chewy or crispy they are always delicious. The chocolate chips which embedded between the dough take your taste buds through a wonderful journey. So would you like to learn how to make them from scratch, without having to buy them from the store? read more »

The Mermaids

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Under the ocean

Live the mermaids

Among the waves

With the fishes

Below the ocean’s shade

 

Eating little fish

Inside tiny huts

Like a big fish

 

And swimming around the ocean

Singing songs of pirates, freedom and ships.

 

–Mitt Ray

My Book on White Paper Marketing

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I recently worked on a book called “White Paper Marketing” with Lawrence Harte and Carolyn Luck. We have finally finished working on the book and it will be published in January. The sample chapter of the book will be available next week.

The book contains everything you need on white papers from writing them to distributing them and is published by Althos Publishing.

Stay tuned for more information.