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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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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How Should We Format Non-Verbal Communication?
If our story includes telepathy or text messages and the like, what are some of our formatting options for non-verbal communication passages?
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Word Choice: What Does It Mean for Our Writing?
We’ve discussed POV and voice, but what does the term “word choice” mean, how does it affect our writing, and what goes into choosing the right words?
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What Do Readers Want from a Story’s POV?
Our story is—in many respects—what our story’s POV tells readers it is. So what do we want readers to get out of our story and chosen POV?
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How Does Our Character’s POV Affect Our Story?
Why is POV so important to understand? The better we understand the power of our character’s POV, the stronger we can make our characters and our story.
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