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Thoughts on Villains

May 3, 2012 in Beginner Resources, Writing Life by Marie Lu

by Marie Lu — Out of all the characters that exist in a story, antagonists are the most difficult for me to get right. Too often, I find myself in danger of falling into the trap of writing an antagonist that is too obviously bad, usually to the point where the character just falls flat [...]

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Question of the Month: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin?

April 6, 2012 in Question of the Month, TGIF by Marie Lu

Welcome to Question of the Month, where one question is asked to the entire Pub Crawl group This month’s question is: “If your main character(s) were wizards and witches in the Harry Potter world, what House(s) would they be sorted into?“ Here are our answers! – Let’s see. My main characters are Eva and Addie, [...]

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Secondary Characters

March 30, 2012 in Beginner Resources, Writing Life by Marie Lu

by Marie Lu — I love creating characters. I love love love creating characters. More than anything, character creation is by far my absolute favorite part of the writing process–and no character is more fun for me than The Secondary Character. (or Secondaries, what I call them for short) Protagonists (and usually antagonists) get plenty [...]

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What About Book 3?

February 22, 2012 in Industry Life, Writing Life by Marie Lu

by Marie Lu — When I first started writing the sequel to Legend (my debut novel and the first of a trilogy), I kind of knew to brace myself for the next one. After all, every writer I know has struggled with the dreaded Book 2. Book 2 is the sophomore slump. Book 2 is [...]

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