Character Talents & Skills: Beyond the Superficial — Guest: Becca Puglisi
What can our character’s talents or skills add to our story if they’re not important to the plot? Becca Puglisi of Writers Helping Writers shares five ideas.
Time for Good 2020 News: A Holiday Giveaway!
I’ve partnered up with Writers Helping Writers to bring you a PRIZE-PACKED Advent Calendar for Writers—and you could win one of my workshops!
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What’s Our Character’s Job? Here’s Help (& a Giveaway)!
Before we figure out how to tie our character’s occupation to the story, we might need to understand more about the job and what it means for them.
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What’s Your Personal Story?
Many are struggling with anxiety, but stories have power in a crisis. Beyond the stories we write, there’s also the story we tell ourselves about our life.
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Holiday Giveaways and Workshop News!
I’ve partnered up with Writers Helping Writers to bring you a PRIZE-PACKED Advent Calendar for Writers—and you could win one of my workshops!
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Do Our Stories Need More Conflict?
Out in the world, conflict is usually considered a bad thing, but our stories need it. How much conflict does our story need and how can we add more?
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Struggle to Write Characters? Here’s Help!
As writers, we have to make our characters seem real to readers, but it’s often not easy. So here’s two resources that can help us create characters that seem real.
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6 Ways to Show Emotions for Non-POV Characters — Guest: Becca Puglisi
Writers need readers to grasp emotional information from non-POV characters, which can be a struggle. Becca Puglisi, co-author of the Emotion Thesaurus shares 6 techniques to avoid the problem.
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How to Create a Redeemable Villain — Guest: Becca Puglisi
We all love a “good” villain, but sometimes we want our bad guy to see the light and find redemption (or at least start on that path). Becca Puglisi is here to show us how with four paths to redemption for our villain.
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4 Tips for “Setting” a Mood — Guest: Becca Puglisi
The Thesaurus books by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi are a must-have for every fiction author, and they now have two new Thesauri books: Urban Setting and Rural Setting. Becca’s here today to talk about how setting is important for more than just describing the time and place of our scene.
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