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How To Share Your Protagonist’s Deepest Feelings With Readers

April 26, 2016

How To Share Your Protagonist’s Deepest Feelings With Readers

April 26, 2016

Our job as writers is to make the reader FEEL, empathizing with our characters, feeling invested in the outcome of events, and immersed in the story’s world. When a reader’s…

Emotional Wounds Entry: the Death of a Child on One’s Watch

April 23, 2016

Emotional Wounds Entry: the Death of a Child on One’s Watch

April 23, 2016

When you’re writing a character, it’s important to know why she is the way she is. Knowing her backstory is important to achieving this end, and one of the most impactful pieces of…

How a Protagonist’s Friends Can Cause Problems in the Story

April 19, 2016

How a Protagonist’s Friends Can Cause Problems in the Story

April 19, 2016

One thing Angela and I discovered time and again as we put the Rural and Urban Setting Thesaurus books together is just how influential setting is on a story. Setting…

The Emotional Roller Coaster: Why Characters Resist Change

April 11, 2016

The Emotional Roller Coaster: Why Characters Resist Change

April 11, 2016

I’m reading this fascinating book about the human brain and how we can evolve through concentrated intention and awareness. One of the terrific nuggets is the belief that every emotion,…

One Stop For Writers’ Structure Tool: Story Maps

March 28, 2016

One Stop For Writers’ Structure Tool: Story Maps

March 28, 2016

Visual Structure Planning: Story Maps Do the phrases “Story Structure” and “Character Arc” send adrenaline thrumming through your veins, or cause your stomach to drop in free-fall? Either way, it…

35+ Posts To Help Writers Elevate Their Craft & Marketing Skills

March 22, 2016

35+ Posts To Help Writers Elevate Their Craft & Marketing Skills

March 22, 2016

A friend of mine asked me for a list of posts that I would like shared online (how nice, right?) and it prompted me to visit my website stats to…

How to Purge Your Fears About Writing

March 15, 2016

How to Purge Your Fears About Writing

March 15, 2016

Writers experience a ridiculous range of emotions throughout the writing process: excitement when a new idea comes along; satisfaction and joy when a work-in-progress is completed; and fear at varying…

Emotional Wound Entry: Telling The Truth But Not Being Believed

March 5, 2016

Emotional Wound Entry: Telling The Truth But Not Being Believed

March 5, 2016

When you’re writing a character, it’s important to know why she is the way she is. Knowing her backstory is important to achieving this end, and one of the most impactful pieces of…

How Your Character’s Failures Can Map A Route To Self-Growth

March 2, 2016

How Your Character’s Failures Can Map A Route To Self-Growth

March 2, 2016

Failure is one thing no one looks forward to nor wants to experience. It doesn’t feel good to work at something only to fail. When we fail, a knot of…

Why Scripts Are Rejected: 10 Screenwriting Errors To Avoid

February 16, 2016

Why Scripts Are Rejected: 10 Screenwriting Errors To Avoid

February 16, 2016

Norman Arvidsson joins us today to talk about common screenwriting mistakes. Are You Committing These 10 Screenwriting Errors? 90% of the scripts registered with the WGA are never completely read…