Melanie Anastasiou, Author at PULP Literature

Character Growth and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

26 October 2015 Melanie Anastasiou 2

We’ve been reading a lot of story submissions and contest entries at Pulp Literature this past week. You writers are doing so many things well. […]

The Promise of Genre Redeemed

22 October 2015 Melanie Anastasiou 0

Whyte, Heinlein, Sanderson, MacDonald, and George Nail It … Right at the start of your story you get the promise of genre clear and bright […]

Opening Images: The Woman in Black

6 October 2015 Melanie Anastasiou 0

I love a great opening image. As with so many aspects of story composition, creating that great opening image is a balancing act – but […]

Supporting Characters II: Keeping Track of the Cast

30 September 2015 Melanie Anastasiou 0

It’s easy to remember the protagonist, the love interest, the antagonist, the sidekick. But how to keep track of a multitude of supporting characters? We […]

Crafting Supporting Characters: Robert Sawyer and GRR Martin Show How It’s Done

22 September 2015 Melanie Anastasiou 0

I’m a great admirer of authors who make exceptional use of supporting characters. A cast of extras is fun to write, of course. And supporting […]

Fun and Games Inside the Belly of the Beast

8 September 2015 Melanie Anastasiou 0

Somebody who would be a brilliant writer if he stuck with it said to me, “I got a good ways in and then the whole story […]

The Ideas on the Train

25 August 2015 Melanie Anastasiou 3

Your characters are most obliging about bringing you the best story ideas. JK Rowling once said that she was sitting on the train one day and Harry […]