Kathryn Page Camp
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Showing posts with label
characters
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Monday, January 5, 2026
Finding Names by the Side of the Road
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Roland and I went to Raleigh, North Carolina, over the holidays to celebrate Christmas with our children. On the way there and back, we dr...
Monday, June 9, 2025
Ambiguous Characters
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Ambiguity can be good or bad, depending on the writer’s purpose. If a writer is looking for clarity, then ambiguity is his or her enemy. I...
Monday, August 14, 2023
The Dangers of Modeling Characters on Real People
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Every character we include in our fiction reflects people we have known. Each characteristic—whether noble, embarrassing, or quirky—came f...
Monday, August 7, 2023
Modeling Characters on Real People
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I don’t usually model my characters on real people. The protagonist’s mother in Desert Jewels had some of my mother’s personality, but the ...
Monday, August 23, 2021
Listening to Your Characters
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Sunday’s sermon talked about God as the potter and we, His creations, as the clay. We can’t tell Him what to do, although we try anyway. ...
Monday, May 7, 2018
Keep the Reader Reading: The Art of Story
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One of the regular readers of this blog told me that she found last week’s entry a bit confusing. Many writers are not educators and don...
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