cmrosens
@cmrosens@cmrosens.com
C. M. Rosens is a genre-bending hybrid author of Gothic Horror, New Weird, and dark SFF, based in the UK. Find her travelling by rail, wandering among lonely ruins and ancient megaliths, and lost in worlds of fiction, music and folklore.
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World Building 101: Creating Societies
Step by Brainstorming Step So let’s say you’re thinking about a dystopian society. I’m using this example because it’s easier to dissect a world in progress than to talk about a pre-created world without dropping spoilers about the books! You’ve got your brainstorm of loose ideas, some may be fairly well fleshed out already and…
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World Building 101: Starting with a Premise
Introduction Welcome to my new series, WORLD BUILDING 101, with me, C. M. Rosens, and Guillaume Velde. Velde and I are building a world together and thought we would open up about the process since we do this kind of thing for fun. Premises: Building From a Seed Sometimes stories come in characters, in scraps…
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Anatomy of a Draft
So you have your first draft! Yay! Where to go from here? Well, first, get yourself a support group of fellow writers: a variety of ages and experiences are always a plus. It takes a village to raise a writer and their book-baby! TIP: Change your font and font size before editing and leave your…
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Writing the Right Protagonist!
Personality Test Some tips for writing believable, relatable protagonists: Have you done a personality test for your protag? I had some issues with my main character in The Crows because I thought she was flat and not as likeable as I wanted her to be. I took an MBTI test for her and she came…