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Character Development in Zeroes by Chuck Wendig

Character Development in Zeroes by Chuck Wendig

As I’m going through this DIY MFA process and inhaling as many books as possible, I’ve started watching for good examples of technique. I just finished Chuck Wendig’s cyberpunk adventure, Zeroes, and discovered a fantastic example of building characters that readers care about. In some ways, Zeroes is a straight forward Scoobie-gang adventure, but with hackers. It’s such a good read because you end up really caring about the members of said Scoobie gang. That means I want to pick the…

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Cyber crime, author marketing, and space operas

Cyber crime, author marketing, and space operas

Last night I started reading Chuck Wendig’s cybercrime novel, Zeroes. So far, it’s a lot of fun.  But fun is typically what I expect from Chuck. Zeroes has me thinking about other ways to assemble different characters. This one has a team that has to be assembled by a common thread, here in the form of a government agent.  I may have figured out why the beginning of my scientists vs. kaiju story just didn’t work. Reading fiction for fun…

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