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3 Tips To Creating A Time Bomb Plot Device

November 28, 2017

3 Tips To Creating A Time Bomb Plot Device

November 28, 2017

The Ticking Time Bomb plot device is effective at keeping tension high and readers engaged. Join Jonathan Vars for tips on how to put it to good use in our…

How to Tell If Your Story Needs a Resolution

November 21, 2017

How to Tell If Your Story Needs a Resolution

November 21, 2017

One of the last things you’ll consider for a story is whether to write a resolution. This short sequence of scenes (or a single scene) after the climax can conclude…

10 Methods to Make Your Character Likeable

November 14, 2017

10 Methods to Make Your Character Likeable

November 14, 2017

A key point of writing a successful story is to have likeable characters. This is usually a must for the protagonist, but the cast overall should have a number of…

Differentiating Between Your Characters’ Voices

November 9, 2017

Differentiating Between Your Characters’ Voices

November 9, 2017

Welcome Liam Carnahan, who is sharing techniques for differentiating between characters’ voices. Writing engaging and realistic dialogue is hard enough on its own. When your novel or story has multiple…

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…

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…

What’s the Dark Night Moment All About?

October 3, 2017

What’s the Dark Night Moment All About?

October 3, 2017

You’re coming to the end of the tunnel, and you see a bright light illuminating the finish line. You are almost through writing your novel! If you’ve done your homework,…

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…

The 10 Key Scenes You Need to Frame Up Your Novel

September 26, 2017

The 10 Key Scenes You Need to Frame Up Your Novel

September 26, 2017

“How do I write a great novel?” is probably THE question every aspiring novelist has asked . . . but maybe hasn’t had answered satisfyingly and clearly. There are plenty of techniques…