Creating Better Characters for the '99 and 2000...Thanks Tasha!

In November 2017, I participated in my first ever NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). At that point in time I had reached a concrete decision that #UnacceptableBehavior (UB) was going to be a thing. Though how or when I would arrive at a point of putting it out...ehhh, that's where things got a little foggy.

WHAT THE HELL IS NANOWRIMO?

Though I was still in need of a few more stories to reach my self-identified thirteen for UB, I decided to try out this new...thing, that I stumbled across on twitter. So after a crash course on how everything worked, I got cracking on ultimately what would become #Psycho (my follow-up to UB and my first full-length novel-- hopefully releasing in 2019).

Even with what I felt was a solid foundation for this new project, I knew from reading some other indie authors over the previous year plus, that I wanted my writing to be far better in every way. Sidenote: shoutout to Eliza David, DL White and Tasha L. Harrison for being my goalposts in this fiction writing thing.

The Basic Character Creation Workbook is available at tashalharrison.com

Enter Tasha L. Harrison (author, editor, creative). In a very short time, Tasha has become one of my favorite follows on twitter. She's extremely personable, approachable, and simply put...she knows shit.

After picking up a number of free jewels from her on twitter, when she announced she had made a workbook to fully flesh out characters available...I jumped on that. Jumped on it like it was Yves motherfucking Santiago waving me over at the bar. Yes lawd! *ehem*

I feel like I'm about 1/2 way thru the workbook so far. But as a fairly new writer to longer more in-depth projects, I already feel more prepared to introduce characters that can help carry a novel thru all of the settings and emotions I hope to present.

If you are a writer, regardless of your experience level or aspire to be one, I definitely recommend the The Basic Character Creation Workbook.