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Dropping Breadcrumbs: How to Show a Character’s Emotional Wound Through Behavior

November 5, 2020

Dropping Breadcrumbs: How to Show a Character’s Emotional Wound Through Behavior

November 5, 2020

Emotional wounds are transformative and have the power to re-shape a character in many negative ways, impacting their happiness, their self-worth, and causing mistrust and disillusionment to skew their worldview.…

4 Ways to Fix a Boring Story

October 27, 2020

4 Ways to Fix a Boring Story

October 27, 2020

Is your story boring? Would you know or acknowledge it if it was? No one wants to admit that their story is slow, lackluster, or zzzzz. But hey, that’s what…

The Best Resource for Planning Your NaNoWriMo Novel

October 22, 2020

The Best Resource for Planning Your NaNoWriMo Novel

October 22, 2020

We’re creeping up on the biggest, craziest, event in Writerville: National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). That means 50,000 words written in one month, and all the coffee, stale pizza, and…

What You Can Learn from Rhetorical Questions in Your Manuscript

October 20, 2020

What You Can Learn from Rhetorical Questions in Your Manuscript

October 20, 2020

It is such an easy thing to do. Once you become aware of author intrusion and what that looks like in limited third person, first person, or deep POV, the easy…

Awesome Writing Tips From 6 Famous Writers

September 15, 2020

Awesome Writing Tips From 6 Famous Writers

September 15, 2020

As I always say on Bang2write, there are no specific writing rules to break, just risks to take … That said, there are ‘best practices’! This is why it can…

No Story Conflict? Explore Your Options

September 8, 2020

No Story Conflict? Explore Your Options

September 8, 2020

As a reader of Angela and Becca’s blog, chances are you’ve seen some of their many posts about the role of conflict in our story. In fact, as a Resident…

Identifying Your Character’s Primary Attribute

August 27, 2020

Identifying Your Character’s Primary Attribute

August 27, 2020

When I think about some of my favorite protagonists, I can usually identify a trait that defines each one: Sam Gamgee: LoyaltyAnne Shirley: ImpulsivityJames T. Kirk: Boldness However, if each…

Yesterday: Looking Back at the First Act

August 18, 2020

Yesterday: Looking Back at the First Act

August 18, 2020

“Yesterday.” A beautiful, beautiful song that easily applies to our writing process. Confused? Go with me for a minute. It doesn’t matter if we’re a pantser, a plotter, a plotser,…

6 Tricks to Layer on Stakes

August 11, 2020

6 Tricks to Layer on Stakes

August 11, 2020

Stakes are what are at risk in a story. It might be that the protagonist’s life is at risk, or perhaps a romantic relationship, or maybe the opportunity to go…

How To Research Mental Health and Trauma For Your Characters

August 4, 2020

How To Research Mental Health and Trauma For Your Characters

August 4, 2020

Giving a character a trauma or mental health backstory seems like an easy way to add internal conflict to our characters – and it is. But where do you start…