Marci Patterson, Post Graduate Doctoral Student, Social and Media Expert Meet Marci Patterson, a post-graduate doctoral student on the CSU research team. Marci is 30, single, and intends to stay that way. She is the quiet team member unless Wayne Fitzpatrick pushes one of her buttons. She is a brilliant storyteller and has the same […]
Category: Character Personas
Wayne Fitzpatrick, Graduate Student, Lead IT Geek, and Comic Relief As described by co-worker Marci, Wayne Fitzpatrick is a 12-year-old living in a 26-year-old man’s body. Yeah, that would be Wayne. Despite his adolescent tendencies, he was the go-to resource if a system or computer glitched. He ran the Psychology Department Local Area Network (LAN) […]
Zackery Hightower, Multi-Disciplined Engineer, AI Designer, and Resident Gearhead Zackary Hightower is a brilliant geek. I described him as a gearhead too, but tech-weenie may be a better match. Zack is the creator and developer of Artificial Intelligence Matrixed for Evolving Environments, ultimately named AIMEE. As a software engineer, he is the overlord of the […]
AIMEE – Artificial Intelligence Matrixed for Evolving Environments Okay, so I’m writing Personas for each main character to give readers a glimpse into what makes each one tick. How do you accomplish that when the character is not human, animal, or organic? Developing a persona for a software application with no human characteristics like emotions […]
Dr. Cara Williams, Clinical Psychologist & Director of Research in the School of Psychology at Central State University, Carteret County, North Carolina. Dr. Cara Williams, Clinical Psychologist & Director of Research in the School of Psychology at Central State University, Carteret County, North Carolina. Cara, by today’s standards, is a strong, driven woman, and those […]
In the Video Interview with Laura Wing last week (May 8), she said we would have more conversation than a Q&A grilling interview during our time together. I had no advance questions to prepare for…or, in my case, overthink, which left me with the challenge of getting my butterflies to fly in formation. That challenge […]
While there is a lot of action in the Dreamscape Series, some deep human emotions often only come out if the story’s telling is complete. That happens when the characters’ roles are too superficial and insignificant in the storyline. I avoid superficial and strive to have my characters show their lives in the story by […]
When writing Book #4 – Dead Thoughts – I completed a great deal of PTSD research and uncovered a treatment called Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT). According to Dr. Barry Krakow and Antonio Zadra, IRT is a cognitive therapy approach used for the last twenty years. The concept of IRT enables the person with PTSD to […]