Watch your delivery of backstory ~ the story of what, in the past, made the character who they are today (in story …
Step Away from all the Words of Your Novel, Memoir, Screenplay
A writer says her story "tanks around page 25" and bores her even to try to rewrite.I recommend she spend some time standing back …
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Depicting Character Emotion
To depict character emotion beyond the cliches -- slamming things down and shouting when angry, dancing and singing when joyful -- …
5 Benefits of Writing a Truly Awful, Lousy 1st Draft
1) Rather than stop and start over again and again, when you allow yourself to write a truly awful, lousy first draft from …
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