3 Steps to Tackling Bland Characters & Making Them Stand Out When you think about the word "character," what comes to mind? Merriam-Webster defines character as "the main or essential nature especially as strongly marked and serving to distinguish." The operative word here is "distinguish." Yet, why is it we find bland characters in our stories? When […]
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What's Wrong With Rushing Through the First Draft of a Novel? In today's world, we're busy. We fill our schedules to the max, and we're eager to get things done. We need that pleasure of having a task complete so we can start a new project. For writers, some of us have put our writing
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Is Social Media Getting In the Way of Your Writing Goals? While we all know that procrastination is a common roadblock to our writing goals, most of us handle procrastination on a reactive basis. When we catch ourselves procrastinating and we tell ourselves to stop, we’re reacting to correct a bad action or behavior. As
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