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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…

Good Endings: What Should Yours Include?

October 10, 2017

Good Endings: What Should Yours Include?

October 10, 2017

What’s the right ending for your novel? This isn’t a simple question to answer, because there are many factors to consider. But the first thing you want to think about…

Help Us Celebrate! It’s One Stop for Writers’ 2nd Anniversary

October 5, 2017

Help Us Celebrate! It’s One Stop for Writers’ 2nd Anniversary

October 5, 2017

WOW! It’s been two years since Lee, Becca, and I held our breath and threw open the doors of One Stop for Writers, a unique online library stuffed with tools, resources,…

Meet Our Newest Resident Writing Coaches

October 1, 2017

Meet Our Newest Resident Writing Coaches

October 1, 2017

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since we started the Resident Writing Coach program, but here we are! This program, designed to bring you high-level writing education…

What Is an Emotional Wound?

September 28, 2017

What Is an Emotional Wound?

September 28, 2017

If you’ve hung around Writers Helping Writers, you’ll know that Angela and I have been obsessed with how a character’s emotional wounds impact them on so many levels. I thought…