Posts Tagged with ‘characters’
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Staggering Hubris by Josh Berry – review
08 Jul 2022STAGGERING HUBRIS You’re a staggeringly brilliant spad (special adviser) working in Downing Street in the early days of a new…
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Putting on the squeeze. Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen
26 Feb 2021REVIEW: SQUEEZE ME BY CARL HIAASEN What’s a poor author to do? You write a comic novel that satirises the…
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Fight club: Review of Lionel Shriver’s The Motion of the Body Through Space
11 Nov 2020LIONEL SHRIVER’S THE MOTION OF THE BODY THROUGH SPACE Bestselling author Lionel Shriver is not one to run away from…
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Collateral damage – review of Berta Isla by Javier Marías
19 Feb 2020BERTA ISLA Last month I reviewed the latest, possibly last, novel by one of the giants of spy fiction, Agent…
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Review: Joe Country by Mick Herron
11 Sep 2019REVIEW: JOE COUNTRY BY MICK HERRON Publishers, agents and readers love a running series. Like a fast food outlet a…
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How do writers come up with character names for their scripts?
13 Jan 2014Could you do more when it comes to naming characters in your scripts? Top of my list of faults are names that are bland, cliché, too similar, or just plain wrong. But how do the top writers do it?
