How to Uncover Your Character’s Deepest Fear
How to Uncover Your Character’s Deepest Fear
Fear is a disruptive force, even though its job is to keep us safe. When there’s a perceived physical or psychological threat, our brain blasts us with a shot of…
Read more…The Importance of a Great Opening in a Novel
The Importance of a Great Opening in a Novel
How you start your story is super-important, which is why your novel’s opening is crucial. In just a few sentences – yup, sentences, never mind pages! – you need to…
Read more…What’s the Difference Between an Editor and a Book Coach?
What’s the Difference Between an Editor and a Book Coach?
If you’re all about Mark Zuckerberg’s famous credo “move fast and break things,” you may feel confident diving from writing into self-revision and then editing. But if you like to…
Read more…Fear Thesaurus Entry: Being Labeled
Fear Thesaurus Entry: Being Labeled
Debilitating fears are a problem for everyone, an unfortunate part of the human experience. Whether they’re a result of learned behavior as a child, are related to a mental health…
Read more…Fear Thesaurus Entry: Sex
Fear Thesaurus Entry: Sex
Debilitating fears are a problem for everyone, an unfortunate part of the human experience. Whether they’re a result of learned behavior as a child, are related to a mental health…
Read more…Fighting Attraction in Romance (Body Language Help)
Fighting Attraction in Romance (Body Language Help)
Emotion is the heart of any story, and there is no genre where this holds more true than romance. Readers look forward to a romantically tense roller coaster ride (how’s…
Read more…5 Ways to Approach Your Novel Like a Trial Lawyer
5 Ways to Approach Your Novel Like a Trial Lawyer
So much about good storytelling mirrors the way a lawyer might lay out the case for their client. Our job as writers is to select events and characters that reveal…
Read more…An Unbreakable Promise to Readers
An Unbreakable Promise to Readers
A novel’s opening chapter makes a promise, a secret vow that says, “This is what you can expect from me.” The chapters that follow better fulfill that promise, or the…
Read more…Fear Thesaurus Entry: Sickness
Fear Thesaurus Entry: Sickness
Debilitating fears are a problem for everyone, an unfortunate part of the human experience. Whether they’re a result of learned behavior as a child, are related to a mental health…
Read more…The Urban Setting Thesaurus: Prison Cell
The Urban Setting Thesaurus: Prison Cell
Sourced from The Urban Setting Thesaurus SIGHTSIron bars shiny in places where hands have gripped them, cement walls, furniture that is firmly fastened to the wall or floor, single or…
Read more…How to Reveal a Character’s Internal Conflict
How to Reveal a Character’s Internal Conflict
If you’ve been on the writing trail long enough, you’ve heard plenty of talk surrounding conflict and the role it plays in storytelling. Whatever form it takes—annoying neighbors, quarrels with…
Read more…Fear Thesaurus Entry: Death
Fear Thesaurus Entry: Death
Debilitating fears are a problem for everyone, an unfortunate part of the human experience. Whether they’re a result of learned behavior as a child, are related to a mental health…
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