Black Moments: Understanding Our Options
What should trigger our story’s Black Moment? Let’s take a deeper look at the role this turning point plays with our story and our character.
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Writing Conflict: Love, Work, and Office Romance — Guest: Angela Ackerman
Our character’s job can be a source of story conflict, but how can we avoid clichés, especially with an office romance? Angela Ackerman shares her tips.
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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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How to Level Up Our Storytelling with Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is a good trait for writers to have. What 5 habits can help us become more self-aware, and how can they strengthen our storytelling skills?
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Crafting a Relationship That Matters — Guest: Angela Ackerman
How can we create powerful relationships in our stories? Check out Angela Ackerman’s insights and examples for crafting characters.
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How Can We Learn and Improve Our Writing Skills?
Want to improve your writing? Here are the strengths and weaknesses of 5 common ways to learn and improve our writing craft.
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Chapter Breaks & Titles: What Are Our Options?
For all the writing advice in the world, there’s comparatively little about chapters specifically, such as if or how we should title them.
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Sentence Flow: Fixing Choppy Writing
If our sentences don’t have a good flow from one to the next, our writing can feel choppy. But what causes choppy writing and how can we fix it?
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4 Tips for Creating the Right Impression of Our Characters
Last time, we discussed how to introduce our characters. Now, here are 4 tips for ensuring we’re giving readers the right impressions of our characters.
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Making a Good First Impression with Our Characters
It’s time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, where we’re exploring how to introduce our characters to readers.
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