How To Begin To Develop Character In Your Story?
carriejonesbooks The character in your story is pretty much the key to make it all work, to inspire the readers to keep turning the page or scrolling down the screen. Dwight…
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How to Give Your Characters Humanizing Flaws
I’m teaching a class over at the Writing Barn about character and we’re half-way in. I’ve talked about character motivation and goals, yearning, making them memorable, human worth, stakes, and…
How To Deal With Your Inner Critic So it Stops Sucking Out Your Soul
You suck. You will never be good at anything. Wow. You just equal ew. A lot of us have a critical inner voice. We might call it our internal editor…
Man, That’s a Beautiful Mullet and How To Pace Your Novel
Just like hanging out with a friend, or listening to an instructor drone on and on about the beauty of a mullet, the keys to controlling your novel’s pacing are…
Simple Story Structure, Pokemon Oreos and Do You Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching You?
There are lots of fancy and complicated ways to figure out story structure. There’s Save the Cat, the Snowflake Method, the Five-Act, the Four-Act, the Six-Act. But sometimes all of…