Tag Archives: character

doctor fever

Posted on February 14, 2011 by anna cowan

I have officially caught it: I love Doctor Who. Or rather, I love Matt Smith’s Doctor Who. He’s an odd hero. The only superpower he seems to possess is his brain – and the centuries of info that have gone … Continue reading →

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novel/alien/attention to detail

Posted on November 4, 2010 by anna cowan

today was my last day of school for the year, and I am preparing myself for the re-emergence of my novel. I am looking at three months of full-time writing, and I could cry from happiness. The timing is…good. I … Continue reading →

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in the name of research

Posted on September 14, 2010 by anna cowan

It recently came to my attention that I don’t have a good enough mental image of the hero I’m currently writing to describe him with any conviction. All I really know is that he is huge (muscles, not fat, of … Continue reading →

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motivation

Posted on August 20, 2010 by anna cowan

A while back I wrote a post about the way Susan Elizabeth Phillips is right up front with her characters’ motivations. You meet a character and you learn very quickly what’s happened in their past to make them the way … Continue reading →

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The Perils of Pleasure review

Posted on August 16, 2010 by anna cowan

I still don’t know what I really think about this book. The writing was an absolute revelation – beautiful, unique and interesting by any standards, not just “for a romance novel”. But soon she would be on a ship, a … Continue reading →

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