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7 Ways to Create an Empathetic Antagonist

7 Ways to Create an Empathetic Antagonist

October 11, 2021

Today’s guest post is by Sarah Tinsley. “Complexity is an indispensable ingredient of life, and so it ought to be…

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How to Create Nuanced Characters

How to Create Nuanced Characters

October 4, 2021

Today’s guest post is by Nina Schuyler. In ZZ Packer’s short story, “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” Dina is an incoming black…

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10 Ways to Enhance Your Fiction Writing through Journaling

10 Ways to Enhance Your Fiction Writing through Journaling

September 27, 2021

Today’s guest post is by Lisa Tener. As a writer, you’ve probably kept a journal at some point. Maybe you…

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3 Ways to Make Your Novel’s First Page Cinematic

3 Ways to Make Your Novel’s First Page Cinematic

September 20, 2021

Today’s post is a reprint from some years back—important technique for anyone writing fiction! Readers will often stop reading before…

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6 Tips to Make Your Scenes Visually Dynamic

6 Tips to Make Your Scenes Visually Dynamic

September 13, 2021

Today’s post is a reprint from 2016. Many of us were raised watching thousands of movies and television shows. The…

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6 Factors to Becoming Super Productive

6 Factors to Becoming Super Productive

September 6, 2021

If you’re like so many people these days, you’re fatigued and often unmotivated. Covid has wreaked damage not only to…

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Crafting Great Characters Starts and Ends with Motivation

Crafting Great Characters Starts and Ends with Motivation

August 30, 2021

This material ran on my blog four years ago, but it’s worth sharing again! Most fiction writers know that character…

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7 Important Sensory Elements That Writers Ignore

7 Important Sensory Elements That Writers Ignore

August 23, 2021

Fiction and nonfiction writers alike need to immerse their readers into the story they are telling, and the best and…

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2 Key Factors in Successfully Outlining Stories

2 Key Factors in Successfully Outlining Stories

August 16, 2021

Today’s guest post is by Andrea Turrentine. If you intend to write a novel, I can tell you most publishers…

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