craft – Gideon P. Smith

Making Unlikable Characters… Likable

One challenge all writers face is ensuring the characters they write about have some minimal level of likability. After all, if no one likes anything about your characters, who is going to want to read about them? This can be especially challenging if you are writing a reprehensible character. The most common approach is toContinueContinue reading “Making Unlikable Characters… Likable”

Futurescapes: Application and Pre-workshop

So in March this year I did the futurescapes writing workshop. Before I did it I had searched blogs for people’s experiences and I thought, given it had been of interest to me to get different people’s takes, I would write about my experience with it. Now futurescapes does a number of different workshops, soContinueContinue reading “Futurescapes: Application and Pre-workshop”