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Adjectives to describe Paradiso Well, this is harder than it seems, seeing as I’ve been staring at my screen for the last fifteen minutes without any progress. It’s always easier to describe other people’s works: Battlestar Galactica is gritty yet hopeful, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is quippy and irreverent, Bob’s Burgers is wholesome and witty…
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Rumors in Paradiso And yay, an opportunity to talk about yet another one of my favorite characters to write: Tate Bjorge, the husband to Catherine Nzingha, whose entire outward personality is based on rumors. Who is Tate? His public face tells one story – he’s the perpetually cheating husband of Catherine Nzingha; a playboy entertainment…
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Birthdays in Paradiso Birthdays are … treated like they are now, I guess? But for people like Dee Manzen, they can be difficult. For starters, she doesn’t know when – or where – she was born originally, so she just goes by the date she remembers waking up for the first time: in the middle…
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Would your character embrace their fate or fight it? I’ve actually really been looking forward to this post because I finally get to talk about Fan, probably one of my favorite characters to write at any given time because she’s just … I just love her so much. Anyway … Fan was able to escape…
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What plans does your character have? See, all of my characters have plans, so like … picking one of them was difficult to do, so I went with Dr. Miles Javish, one of the most complicated characters I have ever created, I think. He’s not evil but he’s also definitely not good, but he’s just…
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Saturday Snippet #2 Last week’s Saturday Snippet wasn’t nearly as terrifying as I thought it was going to be … well, once I just clicked “publish,” at least … I’m still quite nervous since this story is so close to my heart, but you know what, I’m going to continue putting it out there. And…
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Free Friday or where & when do you prefer to write? Oh, I’m thankful for such an easy question because I have got to get some sleep since I may have to work a fourth day this week. Sigh, I hate on-calls. Anyway, I can write pretty much anywhere and anytime, so long as the…
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Superstitions in Paradiso Marjani “Jani” Reis is a ship’s captain, and that role almost always comes with a lot of superstitions. Before she starts on another voyage, she has to tap three times on the stained glass picture of St. Clement’s anchor that hangs on the bridge, and the night before leaving a port, she…
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Humor in Paradiso As much as I’d like to channel Terry Pratchett into Paradiso, I have a feeling that it would just come across as forced. I’m not clever enough to be a satire writer, no matter how much I’d love to, so I’m leaning into my strengths. Plus, this story isn’t really a light…
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Character Quirks One of the quirkiest characters in Paradiso happens to be the first character (as of right now) that the readers meet: Brick LaMasse. He’s a night shift janitor at a local hospital, and he fully enjoys being what he calls a “day snoozer.” Although he keeps to himself, usually because of the time…
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