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Motivation Thesaurus: Overcoming Abuse & Learning To Trust

February 11, 2017

Motivation Thesaurus: Overcoming Abuse & Learning To Trust

February 11, 2017

What does your character want? This is an important question to answer because it determines what your protagonist hopes to achieve by the story’s end. If the goal, or outer motivation, is…

How To Accurately Write About a Character’s Pain

February 9, 2017

How To Accurately Write About a Character’s Pain

February 9, 2017

The best thing about this online world of ours is you never know who you are going to meet. I don’t know about you, but one of the areas I…

Does Your Character Description Create A Powerful Image?

February 7, 2017

Does Your Character Description Create A Powerful Image?

February 7, 2017

Your job as a storyteller is to create IMAGES. This is true not just for screenwriters, but for anyone presenting a story to a reader or an audience. Whenever we…

Motivation Thesaurus: Dealing with a Mental Health Condition

February 4, 2017

Motivation Thesaurus: Dealing with a Mental Health Condition

February 4, 2017

What does your character want? This is an important question to answer because it determines what your protagonist hopes to achieve by the story’s end. If the goal, or outer motivation, is…

Your Character’s Appearance: Make Each Detail Count

February 2, 2017

Your Character’s Appearance: Make Each Detail Count

February 2, 2017

Describing a character’s physical appearance is a tough job. Most writers either get into it and share every dimple, curl, and laugh line, or they sprinkle in just a few…

Character Motivation Thesaurus: Being a Leader

January 28, 2017

Character Motivation Thesaurus: Being a Leader

January 28, 2017

What does your character want? This is an important question to answer because it determines what your protagonist hopes to achieve by the story’s end. If the goal, or outer motivation, is…

Lesser-Known Story Character Archetypes

January 24, 2017

Lesser-Known Story Character Archetypes

January 24, 2017

Jonathan Vars is sharing some of the lesser-known character archetypes or tropes you could use to set it apart from other works. Read on! Every story contains certain character archetypes—custom molds,…

5 Things Psychology Can Teach Writers

January 19, 2017

5 Things Psychology Can Teach Writers

January 19, 2017

From our books, most of you know Becca and I love psychology. This is largely because the most captivating fiction pieces are those that closely mirror the real world, especially…

Pacing and Momentum in Revision

January 17, 2017

Pacing and Momentum in Revision

January 17, 2017

One of the elements I like to focus on when I revise is pacing. Pacing is the manipulation of momentum and time in a piece of writing and how the…

Character Motivation Thesaurus: Catching the Bad Guy/Girl

January 14, 2017

Character Motivation Thesaurus: Catching the Bad Guy/Girl

January 14, 2017

What does your character want? This is an important question to answer because it determines what your protagonist hopes to achieve by the story’s end. If the goal, or outer motivation, is…