” All About Character: Writing Strong Women in Fantasy“ is the title of my guest post on Mary Victoria’s blog today.

To celebrate the release of Samiha’s Song, the second in her Chronicles of the Tree series, Mary is hosting a guest author series on her blog around the theme “Writing Strong Women Characters in SFF.” Previous guests have included Nicole Murphy, Gillian Polack, Glenda Larke, Kim Falconer and Tim Jones.

“It’s All About Character …” is my take on the “Writing Strong Women” theme and begins:

For me, the key to writing strong women characters lies in the words “writing” and “character.” As authors, we must focus on writing characters who are credible and real. Male or female, we are primarily writing personalities that must be believable emotionally and in terms of their motivations. But we are also Fantasy authors, which means we have license to play around with the “truths” of the “real” world and devise our own rules …

To read the full post, click here.

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As well as participating in the “Writing Strong Women” series, I will also be interviewing Mary about Samiha’s Song here on “..Anything, Really” on Monday 14—so watch this space!