Do your characters feel like they’re floating through the story, with no control over their world? Do you struggle with writing choices that matter? Here’s how to give your characters agency in their own story.
Category: Writing Techniques
If you’re anything like me, you’ve struggled with characters that all sound the same. Your villain sounds the same as your main character, who sounds
Have you ever tried a word crawl before? I first heard about word crawls last year when I was participating in NaNoWriMo, and they have
Do you struggle with using themes in your story? Theme always sounded like such a mysterious, stuffy concept to me. It was always, “pick a
One of the terms you’ll hear in the writing community is a “face claim.” Face claims are extremely useful, but they can be hard to
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Manipulative characters. We’ve all seen them. Maybe it’s emotional, maybe it’s psychological. But one way or another, manipulation is a favorite tool of fictional characters
If you’ve been on the writing scene for a while, you may have heard the terms “whump” and “hurt comfort” floating around. What do these
One of the toughest things to write is a good group of friends. The friends either come out flat, or they take over the story
Whew. It’s been a while. But here it is. The giant list of plot ideas. When I first sat down to write this, I couldn’t