How to Make the Most of Our Story’s Tropes
It’s time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, where we’re exploring how to improve our writing with story tropes.
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How Do We Measure the “Value” of Fiction?
At our lowest, we might question what makes dealing with all the struggles of writing worth it. How can we measure the value of fiction?
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Cover Design: 4 Tips to Keep in Mind — Guest: Renee Wittman
Even if we’ve read cover-design advice before, there’s always more to learn. Here are a few insights from Renee Wittman we might not have thought of before.
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Conflicts and Goals: How Do They Work in Romance?
In talking about active vs. passive goals, the concept gets even more complicated if we’re writing multiple-protagonist stories like romance.
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How Do Pantsers Develop Characters?
Plotters might find any kind of pantsing hard to understand, but even pantsers can struggle with pantsing our characters’ development, as that process comes with a different set of problems from developing our plots.
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Writing Worries: Fighting the One-Hit-Wonder Problem
Writers are often a neurotic, self-doubting lot, so many of us long for validation. However, any validation is only temporary, and the best we can do is try to develop a healthy relationship with those desires.
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What to Write Next: Playing Favorites
The vast majority of us will write more than one story during our life, so at some point in our career, we’ll have to decide what we’re going to write next. The question then becomes, how do we decide?
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Writing a Series: How Much Do We Need to Plan Ahead?
Authors who writes series often see more sales and success, but for writers who struggle to plan stories in advance, planning out a big series might be impossible. Let’s take a look at our options for planning series in advance.
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Pros & Cons: Referencing the Real World in Our Story
Should we refer to the real world in our fictional story? Let’s take a look at the pros and cons and why we might want to include those references, as well as why we might not.
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Conference Recap & Bonus Contest Winner!
I’m back from beautiful San Diego and the Romance Writers of America National Conference and here for a quick recap of the past week with contest winners galore.
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