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If your readers don’t care about your characters, you’re sunk. Readers don’t necessarily have to like all of your characters, but they have to care about what happens to your main character, or there’s no reason for them to keep reading.

Which means you have to care about your characters, and you have to know them, maybe even better than you know yourself. To create characters that live and breathe on the page, you must first create characters that live in breathe in your psyche. This is why you need to know much more about them than you’ll ever have to include in your completed story.

One way to achieve this authentic character history is to put your main character(s) in as many real-life situations as possible. And because thinking is only the first stage and can only get you so far, write these situations out, considering all sorts of details.

When you can imagine your character in different places and with different people, beyond people and places your story requires, you make your fictional people exponentially more realistic within the confines of your own story.

Start by deciding on the basics: your main character’s date of birth and favorite things (such as food, color, activity, place, song, movie, book, friend, family member, possession, game, animal/pet, amusement park ride, season). Remember: these are details you’ll want to work out, even though they may never need to be discussed in your story.

The basics is great place to start, but to create the most vivid, memorable characters, you’ll need to stretch your imagination and go beyond the basics.

The following exercises will get you started in developing rich, believable, interesting characters. Choose the exercises you’re most drawn to, and really let yourself go-don’t worry about polished sentences or grammar or mechanics. (You can’t plumb the depths of your imagination when you’re worried about comma placement.)

STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES: List emotional, intellectual, and physical strengths and weaknesses for your character. Include any special talents or aptitudes. Get your hands on an IQ test and take it from your character’s perspective, not yours. (Tricky, but fun and worthwhile.)

DINNER AT OUR HOUSE: Imagine a family meal at your main character’s dinner table. Write a short descriptive scene revealing the average evening meal at your main character’s house.

Now revisit that meal scene and add tension. (After all, tension makes fiction go ’round.) Perhaps the school principal called Mom that afternoon and therefore Mom has some serious lecturing to do (or some serious disappointment to relate). Or maybe Dad lost his job that day and — over meatloaf and green beans — tells the family that they’ll have to be uprooted (again). Perhaps the teen daughter brings home a dinner date who only Mom (an undercover detective) recognizes as a convicted felon.

The point is: think of an emotionally-charged piece of information that will make this meal very different from the one above. Write this scene, paying attention to specifics.

WHAT WOULD S/HE DO? Imagine an ethical dilemma that your character finds himself/herself in. Maybe your character was offered a job promotion or a large bonus based on a task s/he didn’t carry out alone. Does s/he tell the truth and share the credit with the colleague or keep quiet about it and bask in the glory solo? Choose a moral quandary, plunk your character it in, and write a short, thorough, descriptive scene. Be sure to tap into your character’s thoughts, fears, conflicts, and ultimately how s/he arrived at the final decision.

DEAR DIARY: Write three diary/journal entries from your main character’s point of view, fully in his/her voice and in his/her head. Make the entries occur on different days and have them deal with different events and emotions. Try to include a whole range of feelings-joy, sorrow, rage, uncertainty, anxiety, to name a few.

DOCTOR, DOCTOR: Write up your character’s last physical exam report, as it would be written by the family physician. Include all relevant details, along with any physical complaints the character might mention.

Then write up some clinical notes from a psychologist who has been seeing your character in therapy. Perhaps your character has discussed his/her worst fear with the doctor. Reveal as much background to that fear as you can: when and why it began, how it’s manifested, how your character struggles to cope with it.

DEAR AUTHOR: Your character writes you (the author) a letter, instructing you quite specifically in how s/he wants to be portrayed in the book. Make your character’s personality come through loud and clear in this letter. Try to set yourself aside as you write it.

JOB APPLICATION: Get your hands on a job application (or create one of your own), and fill it out from your character’s point of view. Include work history, schooling, references, as well as the character’s statement explaining why s/he would be perfect for the job.

Always remember to have fun with these. The minute you’re not having fun, stop. The looser and more relaxed you are when you try these exercises, the more you’ll get from them. You’ll discover things about your character you never thought you knew, which translates to a more fully realized, believable person alive in your story.

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Lucia Zimmitti, a writing coach and independent editor, is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and the Editorial Freelancers Association. Her fiction and poetry have been published in various national literary journals, and she has taught writing at the high school and college levels.

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Do you think like a millionaire? Just how does a millionaire think and what is the mental process used to attract wealth into their lives? T. Harve Eker tells you how to determine your “financial blueprint” which in turn determines your success in creating wealth. Once you are aware of the thoughts you continually think, your inner dialogue, Eker tells you in detail, step by step, how to change this to create the mind set you want. You can literally program yourself for financial success with these methods.

You may be programmed for failure right from the start by events from your childhood or the past. How did your parents and family talked about money and rich people? Did you ever hear as a child “Rich people are greedy” “The rich get rich and the poor get poorer” “Money doesn’t grow on trees” “You work hard and then you die” or “Why make more money-you’ll just have to pay more taxes.” Do any of these sound familiar?

When I thought about my own childhood, I realized that my parents had both told me by word and example that money was hard to come by. You have to work hard for money, maybe at a job you don’t like. I learned you CAN accomplish financial freedom but you have to pay a price for it. Making lots of money is never easy! These are part of my financial blueprint that I had to learn to change.

If you have an inner dialogue that tells you rich people are bad or that money is hard to come by, Eker tells you how to overcome years of thought conditioning and replace old thoughts with new ones which will help you to your goals.. He tells you if you want to be rich, you must admire and like rich people-or you will never be one of them. Eker himself used to believe the rich were snobs-until he got to personally know some of those who had money. To make his own fortune, Eker opened one of the first retail fitness stores in North America which he grew to include 10 stores in only two and a half years.

This book digs deep into your beliefs about money and rich people. If you want to feel you are a victim of circumstances or that fate is against you, this book isn’t for you. If you want to feel empowered to direct your own financial destiny and are open to changing your thoughts, then Eker explains in everyday language, just how to do that.

Eker also tells you that if you are married, you and your spouse should discuss your beliefs about money and your own “financial blue-prints” because if you have opposite beliefs about money, creating wealth will be much harder, if not impossible. Instead resolve to create a separate financial blueprint for you as a couple. Post this blueprint where you can see it and when discussions about money come up-instead of getting emotional or angry, calmly point to the blueprint you both agreed upon.

This book really helped me to see how and why my spouse and I might have different approaches to our finances and how to change that for the better.

In his book, Eker explains the “Wealth Files” or 17 specific ways that millionaires think differently than those who have no money. He also tells you how you can revise your thinking patterns so that you too can think like a millionaire. Once you revise your thinking, he tells you how to continually grow and expand that thinking.

Eker gives assignments to help you along the way, like spending one week not complaining but instead being grateful for what you have. If a rich person complained because he got a scratch on his yaut, who would care, says Eker. Rich people talk about the next big deal or the next new stock investment. They think money and they believe in their own ability to attract money. Even if they should lose all their fortune, soon they can make it back again because they believe they can.

While Secrets of the Millionaire Mind is not a book about the Law of Attraction, per se, T. Harv Eker does explain that how you think, the energy and beliefs you hold, are what create your financial reality. If you want to be a complainer and a victim, this is what you will attract more of. However, if you confidnelty build your financial blueprint, think, act and believe like a wealthy person, the ideas and opportunities will flow to you, helping you create the life you want.

What’s more, Eker’s book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind explains step by step just how to accomplish this and how you too can have a Millionaire Mind.

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In this current time of abuse scandals involving Catholic priests, it might not occur to some that accusations toward men of the cloth are not a recent development. The 1846 case of Father Roman Weinzoepfel illustrates this point, and Roman: Unparalled Outrage offers fictional account of the events of this young priest’s tragic life.

Though the Catholic population of the American midwest was small, the need for a community’s spiritual guidance outweighed the necessity of some priests’ complete training. Thus, Father Weinzoepfel’s installation as pastor of a small Catholic church in Evansville, Indiana was expedited, and this Alsatian found himself quickly having to adjust to pre-Civil War America in a time when immigrants (particularly the Irish and Germanic Catholics) were looked upon with suspicion. It is a discrimination Father Weinzoepfel feels immediately among various merchants (a scene depicting the newspaper editor’s determination that a Catholic festival is not newsworthy sticks out).

Nonetheless, the priest finds acceptance among his own flock, and comes to be acquainted with the Long family, to whom Father administers the dying matriarch Last Rites. The father, Louis, appears to be devout yet is an overbearing patriarch, particularly when it comes to his wayward daughter, Anna. When Anna shocks the family by marrying outside the Faith, the priest tries to make the situation bearable by ensuring the future Catholicity of Anna’s children. However, it is Anna who makes the situation unbearable for Father Weinzoepfel when she, distraught that he has refused her advances, accuses him of rape. Unparalled Outrage takes the reader through a fictional account of the trial, the ensuing anti-Catholic sentiment that plagued the town, and Father Weinzoepfel’s fate, the outcome of which might have differed had he given in to the temptation to break the seal of the confessional.

Author McMullen offers with Roman: Unparalled Outrage an interesting historical perspective on religious intolerance in early America, a timely read despite its setting. Long, awkward stretches in the narrative, coupled with constant shifting of time (as much of Roman’s story is told in flashback), however, interrupt the otherwise smooth flow of the story.

Roman: Unparalled Outrage by John William McMullen 1stBooks, 1410714608, $14.50

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1) Add value. What this means is to work harder, smarter and work longer hours. You need to make your product or service more valuable.

2) Buy things that make money (mutual funds, stocks, bonds, investment properties, small businesses, etc). You should invest at least 10% of your income. Remember you probably want to buy investments after the masses have sold. Then, sell when a bubble develops. Also, you can buy the shares of excellent companies during a recession or when temporary trouble emerges for a particular company. If you think the new CEO of a company can turn a floundering company around, you may want to buy some shares. Due diligence is a necessity.

3) Activate the laws of attraction and belief. Think about what you want. Never think about what you don

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Before creating a webpage it would be in your best interests to learn what exactly goes into creating an excellent such page. You should be clear about what the main elements are and how you can use these elements in creating outstanding Webpages. Perhaps the first consideration that you need to actively pay close attention to is the keywords being used in the web page.

Great keywords can become the nucleus of your web page and so you need to first of all know how to create pertinent and effective keywords, and then know how best to place them on your web page. There is no denying the fact that properly chosen keywords will add to the success of your web pages and so you must first of all research them to be sure that you only use the right keywords.

If you wish, you can use software such as Wordtracker or Good Keywords or even NicheBot in order to create the right keywords. Once you have created useful and relevant keywords, you then need to focus on placing them in the most appropriate places within your web pages. Thus, whatever else you do, don’t forget to place the keyword in the web page’s title.

Next, you must ensure that the keyword is included in your web page’s topmost headline and perhaps even in the URL of your website because that will aid the search engines as well as surfers to find your website a lot more quickly.

Remember that the success of your website depends a lot on where you place the keywords in your web pages because it is only through proper placement will you make search engines find your web pages and also identify them as being relevant to searched-for terms.

Thus, the keyword must appear at least one time in the page title to make the web page more relevant for the search engine. After ensuring that the keyword also is placed in the headline, you need to put it at the beginning of a paragraph and also ensure that such paragraph placements are done evenly and not made too repetitive.

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