Top Reasons Why Your Audience Will Love A Character Who Will Risk It All
To make sure your audience is fully invested in seeing if your Protagonist gets what they want, you need to show them...
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Top Reasons Why Side Adventures Make Your Audience Stop Caring
Keeping your audience caring about this story, these characters, is essential. It means they'll finish this story, then trust you enough to...
How To Live Through Your Characters
The characters in your story are how your audience experiences your plot, so it's essential they feel real. If you write characters...
How To “Bleed Onto The Page”
You may have heard the expression "bleed onto the page" before, but what does it actually mean? You're obviously not supposed to...
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Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Write An Expert Protagonist
Your Protagonist is the main person in your story. You will spend the majority of the time riding on their shoulders and...
How To Control Your Story Pace
The pace of your story is how quickly it moves from one plot point to another, and is controlled by the details...
Reasons Why Moral Purity Can Break Your Characters
To keep your audience caring about your Protagonist, the temptation will be to make them morally pure. I'll be talking you through...
How To Use Time-Locks To Make Your Story Exciting
One of the most important ways to write a story that is entertaining is by keeping the stakes high. If your story...
How To Write A Dystopian Story
Dystopian fiction deals with a future where the world has been changed, and not for the better. They are entertaining because they're...
How To Deal With Imposter Syndrome
Imposter Syndrome can strike anyone, and it certainly strikes me on an alarmingly regular basis. It's the belief that any success or...
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How To Use A Story Prompt
A story prompt is the seed of a story. It's a sentence or an idea designed to spark your imagination. From that...
How To Start Writing In 2021
2021 can be the year of your story. The year you finally get to write "The End." And I can help you....
How To Write A Protagonist That Matters
The Protagonist of your story is the main character. It's the person you will spend the most time with, the person who's...
Why Killing Henchmen Can Make Your Hero Unlikeable
The problem with henchmen is that if you're writing a hero who is intended to be morally pure, you can't have just...
How To Write A Character Arc From Bad To Good
The best stories take characters on a journey. They are changed and shaped by the events in your story and come out...