Recycling Characters
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During the latest Mythcreants podcasts, the hosts discuss ways writers re-use their favorite characters in different forms, with both good and bad...
Showing Your Age(s)
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A new post at Janice Hardy’s Fiction University offers tips for revealing your characters’ ages without being corny. It’s okay to say...
Sci-Fi Writers Are Imagining a Path Back to Normality
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A new article on Wired takes a look at science fiction writers and editors whose work is taking on a more political...
Writing Words That Sing
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In a great post on Writers in the Storm, Margie Lawson shares tips on creating a sense of rhythm with your word...
How to Create A Compelling Character
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In a post on Writers in the Storm, author Shirley Jump offers advice on creating compelling characters that will linger in your...
Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing
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Brain Pickings shares Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing. Among them: Write, write what you want, finish it. All good tips, especially...
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
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As part of their interview with the Write the Book podcast, Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy, authors of Once & Future, describe...
Are There Really Only Two Plots?
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In a new blog post, Janice Hardy discusses how writers can use story archetypes to get a head start on their work....
Six Reasons Your Villain Sucks
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A new post on the Mythcreants blog outlines six reasons your villain isn’t working and offers advice on how to fix them....
Creating a Strong Understory
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Steven Pressfield offers advice on crafting a compelling understory – the story beneath the immediate narrative action that hints at the protagonist’s...