Scribbled Fiction

"Main Characters can't have parents! They never do! Mine shouldn't, either! " Don't make me laugh. The life of an orphan shouldn't be the first thing we hand to our characters when we create them. I mean, come on! Quick, think of a Disney character, any Disney character. Nine and a half out of ten of them won't have any parents... or they're missing a parent... or all they have left is an evil step parent... or, like the Fab Five, they seem to have appeared out of thin air and don't have any parents to speak of (the fab five are Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto, in case you didn't know). With almost any other character in fiction, it's exactly the same. Now think of someone you know. Chances are, that person has two parents. So, if fictional characters are supposed to be realistic.... uh, why don't they have any parents? I think the basic problem with parents is this: Unless the character is an adult...

Well, um, hi there. If you're one of the first ones on the blog, here to see this post as it goes live for the first time, welcome and thanks for helping me get started. For those who have dug deep through the old files for this blog's first post, this is the ancient history you were looking for. My first post! This first one isn't anything special or interesting, just me telling you what my blog will be like. I wanted to do a writer blog, one of the many thousands out there, but I wanted to do something a little different. There will be a few posts here with helpful tips for writing better, just like the other writer blogs, but that's not what I want this blog to be about. I want this blog to be about being a writer. Being a writer isn't all sipping tea at seven in the morning while you type on your 1870's typewriter, and it's not just about staring off into the distance in your bathrobe with your best melancholy face on. It's full of t...