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10 Methods to Make Your Character Likeable

November 14, 2017

10 Methods to Make Your Character Likeable

November 14, 2017

A key point of writing a successful story is to have likeable characters. This is usually a must for the protagonist, but the cast overall should have a number of…

Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Exotic Dancer

November 11, 2017

Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Exotic Dancer

November 11, 2017

Jobs are as important for our characters as they are for real people. A character’s career might be their dream job or one they’ve chosen due to necessity. In your…

Differentiating Between Your Characters’ Voices

November 9, 2017

Differentiating Between Your Characters’ Voices

November 9, 2017

Welcome Liam Carnahan, who is sharing techniques for differentiating between characters’ voices. Writing engaging and realistic dialogue is hard enough on its own. When your novel or story has multiple…

Writing By Design: Making Use of White Space

November 7, 2017

Writing By Design: Making Use of White Space

November 7, 2017

Part 1: The Significance of White Space As writers, we often think of ourselves as “word people,” fully entrenched in the realm of language and all things verbal. Yet we…

Occupation Thesaurus: Emergency Dispatcher

November 4, 2017

Occupation Thesaurus: Emergency Dispatcher

November 4, 2017

Jobs are as important for our characters as they are for real people. A character’s career might be their dream job or one they’ve chosen due to necessity. In your…

Help Us Celebrate The Incredible Strength of Writers (And A New Book!)

October 25, 2017

Help Us Celebrate The Incredible Strength of Writers (And A New Book!)

October 25, 2017

The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Emotional Trauma is out in the world! Full disclosure: this book was not easy to write. Emotional wounds are not fictional–they create…

A Mother Lode of Resources on Emotional Wounds

October 23, 2017

A Mother Lode of Resources on Emotional Wounds

October 23, 2017

Hi everyone! I thought with the release of The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Psychological Trauma, I’d do a round up of posts on emotional wounds to help…

Occupation Thesaurus: Emergency Room Physician

October 21, 2017

Occupation Thesaurus: Emergency Room Physician

October 21, 2017

Jobs are as important for our characters as they are for real people. A character’s career might be their dream job or one they’ve chosen due to necessity. In your…

Occupation Thesaurus: Veterinarian

October 14, 2017

Occupation Thesaurus: Veterinarian

October 14, 2017

Jobs are as important for our characters as they are for real people. A character’s career might be their dream job or one they’ve chosen due to necessity. In your…

How to Improve Your Story By Strengthening Your Sentences

October 12, 2017

How to Improve Your Story By Strengthening Your Sentences

October 12, 2017

One of the fastest ways to improve your writing (and therefore your story) is to get jiggy with the nitty gritty, and by that, I mean honing your sentence level…