Comments on: Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Talking with the Dead https://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/03/character-talents-and-skills-talking-with-the-dead/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:31:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Top Picks Thursday 04-09-2015 | The Author Chronicles https://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/03/character-talents-and-skills-talking-with-the-dead/#comment-286011 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:00:13 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=12849#comment-286011 […] Characters seemed to be on the minds of many bloggers this week. Robin Patchen gives some good tips about showing characters’ emotions, while KM Weiland suggests a quick way to help show and not tell what your characters are feeling, and Amanda Patterson relates 37 ways to write about anger. James Scott Bell discusses how to show what your characters think. Angela Ackerman discusses using a special character talent — talking with the dead. […]

]]> By: Monday Must-Reads [03.23.15] https://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/03/character-talents-and-skills-talking-with-the-dead/#comment-270195 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:50:18 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=12849#comment-270195 […]]]> […] Character Talents and Skills: Talking with the Dead – WRITERS HELPING WRITERS™ […]

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/03/character-talents-and-skills-talking-with-the-dead/#comment-269337 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:35:05 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=12849#comment-269337 In reply to Nat Russo.

This is what I love about these talents and skills entries–everyone can take them and evolve the idea into something totally unique. Love how you envisioned this sort of talent through your character.

And Nat, I am so thrilled you are finding the books are really helping. Music to my ears 🙂 Have a terrific Sunday!

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/03/character-talents-and-skills-talking-with-the-dead/#comment-269331 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:32:56 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=12849#comment-269331 In reply to Traci Kenworth.

Ha, knew you would like this one, Traci!

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/03/character-talents-and-skills-talking-with-the-dead/#comment-269328 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:32:40 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=12849#comment-269328 In reply to :Donna Marie.

Yes, some things don’t align with a belief system, but it’s all good. I think anything paranormal will be hit and miss as some believe it is real while others think it’s a hoax. 😉

]]> By: :Donna Marie https://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/03/character-talents-and-skills-talking-with-the-dead/#comment-269199 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 15:58:54 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=12849#comment-269199 Because of my belief system, I already know this is one “talent” I’ll never use in fiction! It does make for good fiction, though, when done well. It was fantastic in Harry Potter!

]]> By: Traci Kenworth https://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/03/character-talents-and-skills-talking-with-the-dead/#comment-268059 Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:35:52 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=12849#comment-268059 A spooky one!! Right up my alley!!

]]> By: Nat Russo https://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/03/character-talents-and-skills-talking-with-the-dead/#comment-268056 Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:30:23 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=12849#comment-268056 Great article, Angela! As a person who writes about necromancers, this is a topic near and dear to my heart. 🙂

My version of necromancy in “Necromancer Awakening”, however, is a little different than the version fantasy readers usually encounter. The undead are living in a form of purgatory and require the services of a necromancer to “purify” them before they can move on in the afterlife. The necromancer achieves this by living that person’s life in the span of a moment, which gives them the perspective they need to form some sort of judgement about the character of the undead person in question.

Incidentally, I now have the full set of thesauri and recommend them as often as possible. They’ve truly made me a better writer!

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