What I learned from The Vampire Diaries
Aside from the comeback of mood rings, and the fact that there are even scarier things around than vampires, most of what I've learned from the addictive CW television series, The Vampire Diaries , is writing-related. It's been a year since I blogged about what we writers could learn from The Vampire Diaries over on The Minxes blog , and there is still so much more I'd like to share with you. So pull up a comfy sofa and a glass of your favourite drink, and get ready. First, here's a re-cap of the posts I've already done: The first posts were about the earliest lightbulb moments I had while watching Series 1. You can read An Awakening - Part One here , and Part Two here . My next blog post was on Motivation - the importance of ensuring that the actions and decisions of each and every character are well motivated. Then came Character Arcs - using examples from The Vampire Diaries to show how characters can change and grow. Next was a post on Acting out...