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Does the Hippocratic Oath Exist in Fiction?

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

First, it’s difficult to even figure out what the Hippocratic oath really is.  We tend to think immediately of doctors swearing to do no harm to their patients.  Yet, something like this doesn’t appear until the second to last paragraph … Continue reading →

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Best of 2023 #1: 7 Tips to Writing Teenage Protagonists

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

(Originally posted on January 6, 2023. So, more than half the year, my posts were essentially duds.) This is going to be tougher than I expected.  After all, I haven’t been a teenager in decades, so I’m kind of out … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Having Enemies Become Allies

Posted on December 20, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

The temptation to turn a popular villain into a hero can be pretty strong.  To do this, you need to make the two enemies stop wanting to kill each other.  Might not be an easy task because just saying ‘they … Continue reading →

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Supporting Independent Authors

Posted on November 27, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

I’ve been thinking about supporting authors lately.  Seems so much harder to get supporters these days.  I’ve been told that the indie author bubble burst long ago, so that could be it.  Yet, I do see some authors still getting … Continue reading →

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Questions 3: Your Author Identity

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

To be an author, you need to have some understanding of yourself.  Even on the unconscious level, you need to be sure of who you are in order to put pen to paper and create.  This requires creating an author … Continue reading →

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‘This Advice is Gold’!

Posted on July 24, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

  While planning Do I Need to Use a Dragon?, I considered the different type of deliveries that advice can come in.  Specifically, the ways other people have tried to convince me to follow their writing advice.  I realized that there … Continue reading →

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Experience Needed to Write a ‘How To’?

Posted on July 17, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

While writing Do I Need to Use a Dragon?, I was wondering about the entire concept of ‘how to’ books.  I went over a lot of this already, but there’s one aspect that I didn’t really touch on.  That is the … Continue reading →

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Do I Need to Use a Dragon?- Importance of Villains

Posted on June 23, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

(Can’t write about characters without touching on villains.  We all love a good bad guy.  Even more than the heroes.  This was a fun one to think about. Going to take a chunk out of the middle too.) Due to … Continue reading →

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Do I Need to Use a Dragon?- Female Characters

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

( I couldn’t avoid this topic.  Hopefully, I handled it well, but you never know.) This is a question I get asked a lot and it always throws me. Personally, I put my heroes through the wringer regardless of gender. … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Writing Teenage Protagonists

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

This is going to be tougher than I expected.  After all, I haven’t been a teenager in decades, so I’m kind of out of touch.  Even at work, I realize that teenagers of today aren’t like the ones when I … Continue reading →

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