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Posted on July 24, 2017

Pacing: Good News and Bad

Pacing might be the most important skill a writer can develop. Pacing is the tempo of your story, the sense of time passing, the sense of things happening in a smooth, organic order. Pacing is everything. Pacing is crucial to plot. It's how you build suspense--how you make your reader care about what happens, and …

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Posted on July 10, 2017July 10, 2017

Writing: Character Motivations

Every character in your story should have a clear motivation. They need a reason to enter the scene, and something they want to accomplish before the scene is over. This goes for a walk-on character who only has one line just as much as it goes for your protagonist and antagonist. If a character has …

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Posted on June 30, 2017June 30, 2017

Writing: The Power of Broad Characters

Everyone claims to like deep, nuanced characters. People who feel real and rich and alive. There's only one problem. They're wrong. If you think of your favorite characters--frankly, any characters you can remember off the top of your head--you'll think of broad, two-dimensional, larger than life heroes and villains and grotesques. Darth Vader. Tarzan. Wily …

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Posted on June 22, 2017June 23, 2017

Writing: Little, Big

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