How To Start A Story
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When you first start writing your story, and you're introducing your characters, it can be easy to feel stalled. There will be...
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Why Your Story Needs Foreshadowing And How To Write It
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Foreshadowing is the technique of hinting to your audience where your story is going, without actually telling them. It works to make...
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Top Reasons To Kill Your Character’s Parents
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If you want to write books for children or young adults, killing your character's parents is a common trope you might want...
How To Write Entertaining World Building
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World Building is the technique of telling your readers what world your story is set in, whether the laws of nature match...
How To Write Likeable Characters
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Your Protagonist, the main character, of your story usually need to be likeable. I say usually, because having a Protagonist who is...
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How To Write A Conflict Lock
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One of the key ingredients to a successful story is for your characters to be well motivated. Your Protagonist, your main character,...
How To Track Your Continuity
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Your story "continuity" is making sure that from one scene to another, nothing changes about the people or the environment they're in,...
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Top Reasons To Stop Writing Gender Stereotypes Into Your Story Now
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I've written before about how powerful fiction is, and how we can use our stories to do good in the world. Today...
How To Write A Good Prose To Dialogue Ratio?
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If your book is too dialogue heavy, it can read like a script. You don't get to know the environment your characters...
How To Successfully Write Death And Resurrection
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The resurrection of characters that have died can be a dramatic game changer that enhances your story, however, if used too easily...
How To Write Characters Transitioning From Enemies To Friends Or Lovers
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Characters that start out as enemies, and through the course of the story turn into friends or lovers is quite a popular...
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Make Your Character Motivation Understandable So Your Story Makes Sense
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I've written before about how your Protagonist and your Antagonist both have to be motivated to go after what it is they...
How To Stop Coincidences From Ruining Your Story
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A coincidence in a story is an event that happens that has no foreshadowing and no intent, it wasn't something the character...
How To Create A Feeling Of Suspense In Your Story
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If you are writing a scary story, or a thriller or a mystery, suspense is one of the key things you need...
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How To Use Time-Locks To Write High Stakes Drama
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A "time-lock" is best to use in your story when you've established who your Protagonist and Antagonist are, you've pitted them against...