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Posts by Angela Ackerman

Master Storytelling and Save: One Stop for Writers is 50% Off

November 27, 2020

Master Storytelling and Save: One Stop for Writers is 50% Off

November 27, 2020

Well, Black Friday is here and keyboards everywhere are heating up. I wish you a successful day of bargain hunting! While you’re out there taking advantage of the sales, consider…

Black Friday Deals for Writers

November 23, 2020

Black Friday Deals for Writers

November 23, 2020

Black Friday is coming and so now is a good time to think about how to invest in our writing career and save money doing it. Here are some of…

Stuck in No-Man’s-Land: Your Novel’s Middle

November 19, 2020

Stuck in No-Man’s-Land: Your Novel’s Middle

November 19, 2020

If you have hit the point in your draft where you’re looking out at the vast landscape of your novel with no idea where to go next, congratulations…you’ve probably made…

Relationship Thesaurus Entry: Neighbors

November 14, 2020

Relationship Thesaurus Entry: Neighbors

November 14, 2020

Successful stories are driven by authentic and interesting characters, so it’s important to craft them carefully. But characters don’t usually exist in a vacuum; throughout the course of your story,…

Dropping Breadcrumbs: How to Show a Character’s Emotional Wound Through Behavior

November 5, 2020

Dropping Breadcrumbs: How to Show a Character’s Emotional Wound Through Behavior

November 5, 2020

Emotional wounds are transformative and have the power to re-shape a character in many negative ways, impacting their happiness, their self-worth, and causing mistrust and disillusionment to skew their worldview.…

Relationship Thesaurus Entry: Rivals

October 31, 2020

Relationship Thesaurus Entry: Rivals

October 31, 2020

The Best Resource for Planning Your NaNoWriMo Novel

October 22, 2020

The Best Resource for Planning Your NaNoWriMo Novel

October 22, 2020

We’re creeping up on the biggest, craziest, event in Writerville: National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). That means 50,000 words written in one month, and all the coffee, stale pizza, and…

Relationship Thesaurus: Friends with Benefits

October 17, 2020

Relationship Thesaurus: Friends with Benefits

October 17, 2020

Meet Our Newest Resident Writing Coaches!

September 24, 2020

Meet Our Newest Resident Writing Coaches!

September 24, 2020

Can you believe this is the 5th year of our Resident Writing Coach program? It’s true! And today we introduce (and reintroduce) the wonderful experts who will be joining us…

How a Character’s Job Can Awaken Unmet Needs

September 17, 2020

How a Character’s Job Can Awaken Unmet Needs

September 17, 2020

In fiction and film, often who a protagonist is at the start of the story and who they are at the end are different. Why? Because stories—the best stories—are about…