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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…

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…

Character Motivation Thesaurus: Seeking One’s Biological Roots

January 7, 2017

Character Motivation Thesaurus: Seeking One’s Biological Roots

January 7, 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…

Tips for Weaving Romance into Your Novel

January 3, 2017

Tips for Weaving Romance into Your Novel

January 3, 2017

By C.S. Lakin Romance is a part of life, and so it should also play some part in our novels—if we intend for our characters to mirror real life. Even…

Start the Year By Jumping On 3 Important Tasks

December 31, 2016

Start the Year By Jumping On 3 Important Tasks

December 31, 2016

A new year is turning, meaning it’s the perfect time to motivate ourselves to create new stories, and to do that, we should turn our attention to a few housekeeping…

Finding the Sweet Starting Spot for Your Story

December 20, 2016

Finding the Sweet Starting Spot for Your Story

December 20, 2016

I used to hate writing story openings as I could never find the right spot the first time around. Sometimes, I started too far into the current story, leaving readers…