Can Passive Goals Ever Be Good for Our Story?
Our characters don’t want to change, so they often start with passive internal goals. How we can make those passive goals work for us and our story?
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Writer’s Block? Focus on Stronger Story Goals
It’s time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, and this time we’re talking about how to choose good story goals.
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How Can We Make Sense of Our Goals and Priorities?
With everything we think we “should” do, it can be hard to know what our goals really are. How can we figure out our priorities—our most important goals?
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Story Planning: Leaving Our Options Open
How detailed is too detailed when it comes to planning our story? What can we can learn about leaving our options open as we draft our story?
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The Importance of Balance in Our Lives
Finding a good work-life-writing balance is a never-ending struggle. Despite the difficulty, we need to pursue balance or suffer in multiple ways.
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Stop and Smell the Sense of Accomplishment
Milestones like graduation force a sense of accomplishment that comes from completing something. Similarly, we can “graduate” from one stage of our writing life to the next.
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How Pacing Helps Readers Care about Our Characters
I never watched Game of Thrones but this past season is an excellent example of how pacing can affect character arcs and readers’ relationships to our characters.
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Branding 101: Defining Our Brand
In our writing career, tangible lessons are often easier to learn, but branding can be intangible. How can we use tangible ideas to define our brand?
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The Pressure to Write: You Do You
Stories about super-productive authors can make us doubt ourselves or think we’re not doing enough, but we shouldn’t worry about measuring up to impossible standards.
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Pantser vs. Plotter vs. Something in Between
To hear some authors talk, we’d think there are strict plotters and strict pantsers and nothing in between, but there’s really no end to the mix of approaches we can use in our drafting.
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