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Secondary Characters Need Agency Too

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Supporting characters have a way of stealing scenes (and sometimes entire stories) from your main protagonist, but despite that possibility, writers should breath life...

Multiple POV Can Create Frameworks within Frameworks

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In the latest episode of the Writing Excuses podcast, Peng Shepherd joins the hosts to explore ways in which the use of multiple point-of-view...

Hi, My Name Is…

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Sometimes, our characters pop into life with the exact right name. Other times, we have only a vague idea what to call them and...

Creating Characters at Mach-IV

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In a new post, Kristen Lamb takes a left turn at traditional "personality tests" to discuss how to discover what makes your characters tick....

Practice for Making Your Characters Distinct

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In a new post, Mary Carroll Moore offers advice on making each of your story's characters distinct. "Developed characters, fictional or real, should be...

What’s Your Weapon of Opportunity?

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In the latest in her series of Fight Write™ posts on the Writer's Digest blog, trained fighter and author Carla Hoch discusses weapons of...

How is Story Structure Like a Mixtape?

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Structure. Is it an arc, with rising action and a climax? A river that meanders from its source to its ending? A spiral? An...

I Love Your Theme, but Did it Mean Anything?

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In a post on Writer Unboxed, Donald Maass ponders the difference between theme and meaning, and offers advice for injecting purpose into your novel. According...

Fly Your Geek Flag in Your Writing

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Writers are always looking for an interesting fact or tidbit to use in our stories, something to pique a reader's interest or provide a...

The Want and Need of “Soul”

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The Stage 32 blog shares a new video from StudioBinder. In Lessons from a Screenplay, they break down the two foundational elements of a great character:...

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