Reasons Why Moral Purity Can Break Your Characters
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To keep your audience caring about your Protagonist, the temptation will be to make them morally pure. I'll be talking you through...
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How To Write A Dystopian Story
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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 Write A Protagonist That Matters
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The Protagonist of your story is the main character. It's the person you will spend the most time with, the person who's...
How To Write A Character Arc From Bad To Good
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The best stories take characters on a journey. They are changed and shaped by the events in your story and come out...
How To Write A Sex Scene That Feels Real And Exciting
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When you're reading about a romance between two characters, assuming they're adults, sex is a likely outcome. Letting your audience into that...
Why You Should Make Your Characters Suffer
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I'll be exploring how making your characters suffer is important for keeping the conflict active, keeping your story entertaining, and giving your...
How To Write Unresolved Sexual Tension
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There are various ways you can keep your audience invested in finding out what happens in your story, but here I'll be...
How To Make Your Audience Root For Your Protagonist
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One of the most important things to consider when you're writing a story is the relationship between your Protagonist and your audience....
How To Write An Interesting Villain – The Silence Of The Lambs
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When it comes to constructing a villain in your story, you need to put as much care and time into that character...
How To Write Your Protagonist Transition From Passive To Active
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The Protagonist of your story is the main character. You join them at the beginning of the story, and ride with them...
How And Why We Need To Write Character Weaknesses
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Your Protagonist has to have strengths to make them worthy of being your Protagonist. You're telling a story about them so they...
Why Giving Your Character Hobbies Makes Them Feel More Real
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In reality, your characters exist solely to serve your story. They were born the moment they first appeared on the page, and...
Reasons To Make Your Character Sacrifice Something They Want
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Your story, be it fantasy, action, or romantic comedy, is about a character going in pursuit of what they want. They want...
How To Write Character Flaws And Why It Improves Your Story
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When you write a story, quite often you'll find that you will write your Protagonist to be an essentially "perfect" human. They...
How To Write Distinct Characters
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On The Table Read, author JJ Barnes shares her creative writing advice for how to write distinct characters and why it's important...