Occupation Thesaurus: Emergency Room Physician
Occupation Thesaurus: Emergency Room Physician
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…
Read more…Occupation Thesaurus: Veterinarian
Occupation Thesaurus: Veterinarian
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…
Read more…Occupation Thesaurus: Bartender
Occupation Thesaurus: Bartender
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…
Read more…Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Glassblower
Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Glassblower
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…
Read more…Writing to the Beat: Translating Story Beats to Any Genre
Writing to the Beat: Translating Story Beats to Any Genre
Readers of my blog know I’m a big fan of beat sheets, even creating a beat sheet for romance stories. Because of that, writers ask me what beats they should…
Read more…Introducing…the Occupation Thesaurus!
Introducing…the Occupation Thesaurus!
Let’s say you’re at a party, and you meet someone new. The small talk begins. If you want to learn more about them, what’s one of the first things you…
Read more…Why Characters Need Choices in Fiction
Why Characters Need Choices in Fiction
Choices drive every single conflict in a novel. The protagonist wants something (the goal), something is preventing her from getting it (the conflict), and she must choose what to do…
Read more…One Simple Technique to Improve Your Writing in 10 Minutes a Day
One Simple Technique to Improve Your Writing in 10 Minutes a Day
It may seem like a too-good-to-believe promise, but you really and truly can improve your writing with one short, simple exercise, in 10 minutes a day: Rewriting the work of…
Read more…Character Motivation Thesaurus: Achieving Spiritual Enlightenment
Character Motivation Thesaurus: Achieving Spiritual Enlightenment
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…
Read more…The Write Life: How To Enjoy Summer and Still Be Productive
The Write Life: How To Enjoy Summer and Still Be Productive
When you live in a place like Canada where summer can be, er, fleeting, you feel enormous pressure to get outside and DO STUFF. And heck, no matter where you…
Read more…Keep It Fresh: 10 Ways To Show Your Character’s Emotions
Keep It Fresh: 10 Ways To Show Your Character’s Emotions
Years ago, Becca and I grumbled about how our characters always expressed emotion the same way. My big thing? Frowning. Did my characters EVER know how to frown. They were…
Read more…Complex Characters and the Power of Contradiction
Complex Characters and the Power of Contradiction
You’ve likely seen countless posts and resources related to creating great characters, but almost all of them seem to be lacking in one aspect I’ve found to be perhaps the…
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