What’s Our Character’s Job? Here’s Help (& a Giveaway)!

Before we figure out how to tie our character’s occupation to the story, we might need to understand more about the job and what it means for them.

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What’s Our Character’s Job? Here’s Help (& a Giveaway)!

4 Tips for Creating the Right Impression of Our Characters

Last time, we discussed how to introduce our characters. Now, here are 4 tips for ensuring we’re giving readers the right impressions of our characters.

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4 Tips for Creating the Right Impression of Our Characters

Story Tropes: Making Them Resonate

Tropes are often seen as lazy writing, but they can be good for our story. How can we make tropes meaningful and not cliché?

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Story Tropes: Making Them Resonate

The Power of Character Arcs

Without spoilers for Avengers: Endgame, let’s explore how the power of the Marvel movies isn’t about the plot or spectacle—but with the characters.

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The Power of Character Arcs

Creating Characters Who Clash — Guest: Angela Ackerman

Every page of our story should include tension, such as friction between characters, but how do we create characters who clash? Let’s see how to develop characters who create tension in every interaction.

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Creating Characters Who Clash — Guest: Angela Ackerman

More Than a Happy Ending: What Makes a Story Uplifting?

The romance genre is often called “aspirational,” but even romances with a happy ending can fail at being uplifting. What other elements contribute to an uplifting story and what can they teach us about other genres?

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More Than a Happy Ending: What Makes a Story Uplifting?

Struggle to Write Characters? Here’s Help!

As writers, we have to make our characters seem real to readers, but it’s often not easy. So here’s two resources that can help us create characters that seem real.

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Struggle to Write Characters? Here’s Help!

Story Tropes: How Do We Twist a Cliché?

Sometimes we’ll hear writing advice like “avoid clichés,” but what does that mean when it comes to story tropes? After all, can’t tropes be helpful? And if so, how do we make them less cliché?

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Story Tropes: How Do We Twist a Cliché?