How a Career Can Reveal Your Character’s Deeper Layers
How a Career Can Reveal Your Character’s Deeper Layers
Did you know that before Becca became an author and writing coach, she was a teacher? It’s true. And if you know her, you’re probably thinking, I can see that.…
Read more…How to Build Powerful Character Relationships
How to Build Powerful Character Relationships
Character relationships are, in many ways, the glue that holds a story together. Almost every tale has at least one relationship at the heart of it, often more. Rarely can…
Read more…Fall in Love with Your Second Act
Fall in Love with Your Second Act
I love me some Billy Joel. I especially love this song. Granted, it’s a song that deals with a serious issue in a gentle way, but I do think that, on…
Read more…How To Scare Your Readers Using Deep Point Of View
How To Scare Your Readers Using Deep Point Of View
I love to get geeky about deep point of view and I’m so excited to be a guest writing coach here. *mittened fist bump* What is Deep Point Of View? It’s a…
Read more…How Realistic Should Your Action Scenes Be?
How Realistic Should Your Action Scenes Be?
At a conference some time ago I was on a panel with some fellow thriller writers. During the Q & A we got this question from the floor: “How can…
Read more…Motivation for Character Arc: A Different Approach
Motivation for Character Arc: A Different Approach
When it comes to discovering and writing about your character’s motivation, there are a dozen different methods. We can get there by any number of roads—most of which originate in…
Read more…How to Craft Engaging Dialogue Exchanges
How to Craft Engaging Dialogue Exchanges
One of the best places to reveal your character’s emotions is during dialogue. Author Peter Gelfan joins us with some great considerations on how to make these exchanges more powerful,…
Read more…Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Professional Athlete
Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Professional Athlete
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…Contrasting and Condensing Characters: Two Sides to One Coin
Contrasting and Condensing Characters: Two Sides to One Coin
Good characterization is an enigma: it happens in the minutia, with the details we choose for our cast members, but it also happens on the macro level, with how we…
Read more…Picking the Right Setting Details
Picking the Right Setting Details
Settings are very important to me. Most of my love affairs with books and movies tie directly into where the characters lived, laughed, and suffered: Green Gables, Toad Hall, the…
Read more…Three Ways Writers Tell, Not Show (And How You Can Fix Them)
Three Ways Writers Tell, Not Show (And How You Can Fix Them)
One of my favorite writing coaches is here with us to dish some helpful advice on Show and Tell. Please welcome Janice Hardy and read on… Show, don’t tell, is…
Read more…A Mother Lode of Resources on Character Emotion
A Mother Lode of Resources on Character Emotion
As you can imagine, we’re pretty amped that The Emotion Thesaurus Second Edition is here. We hope you find those extra 55 emotions and double the teaching content is a…
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