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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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?
Pin ItThere are many types of goals we have to juggle when writing, and conflict between our storytelling goals can make that juggling act more difficult.
Pin ItIn talking about active vs. passive goals, the concept gets even more complicated if we’re writing multiple-protagonist stories like romance.
Pin ItOur 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?
Pin ItIt’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.
Pin ItAnytime we make a lot of changes to our story, we risk problems, but it helps to track the edits we need to make. How can we organize our revision?
Pin ItEvery page of our story should include tension, such as friction between characters, but how do we create characters who clash? Let’s see how to develop characters who create tension in every interaction.
Pin ItIt’s time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, and this time we’re talking about how to stitch together the pieces of our story after a big revision.
Pin ItAs 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.
Pin ItWriters 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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