Character Development
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Coming of age is never easy. You might have been the popular kid in school, armed with academic excellence, physical...
You’ve created a character. You’ve crafted their backstory, motivation, and physical features, but maybe they still feel wooden to you....
Before a story begins, you can include an epigraph to signal your protagonist’s dilemma, the tone, and even foreshadow the...
The desire to write is, at its core, the desire to evolve. To dig deeper into something you’ve experienced in...
In the modern world where the town square is a digital place and the zeitgeist is a worldwide phenomenon, we...
Literary devices are the various techniques writers employ to create stylistic effects, convey deeper meaning, evoke emotion, and enhance the...
It is human to have blind spots, and often convenient to be in denial about certain aspects of ourselves. This...
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it...
There are times, as storytellers, when we can be so bull-headed about what we want to express, that we end...
Some of you may be writing ensemble screenplays with multiple storylines and scratching your head wondering who your protagonist is....
“The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious, you might never come home.” – Jeanette Winterson When...
“A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the...
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It’s not just first-time novelists or screenwriters that struggle with getting their story from the imagination to the page. Every...
Regardless of the medium, your reader is not interested in what your character is feeling. Seriously. In fact, if you...
“The past is prologue.” – William Shakespeare When we are stuck, it is inevitably because some part of our backstory...
“Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened,...
“The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.”— Scott Turow If you’re rewriting and a point...
