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5 Quick Fixes to Make Readers Love Your Villains
Writers In The Storm welcomes back award-winning author and RWA RITA-nominee, Shannon Donnelly. Today she’s talking to us about villains we love to hate and how to keep them from becoming a cardboard stereotype whose every action is predictable and … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging Guests, Craft
Tagged antagonist, Characters, How to write villains, Shannon Donnelly, Writers in the Storm, writing
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Dialogue is King
By Tiffany Lawson Inman In theatre, dialogue is king. It is the lifeline of the story. Character’s lines bouncing back and forth between each other. Confiding, conspiring, commiserating, coercing, or caring. Dialogue works to create emotion, conflict, show character, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 77 Secrets to writing YA Fiction that sells, action, backstory, Characters, conflict, Darkness My Old Friend, dialogue, Directing Diolgue, Fighting in Fiction, From Madness to Method, Lawson Writer's Academy, Lisa Unger, Naked Editor, scenes, subtext, theatre techniques, Tiffany Lawson Inman, voice, Writers in the Storm
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Writing The Big Picture – Don’t Trash The Roadmap
By Sharla Rae In our WITS crit group, we all have our individual critiquing talents: grammar, tight writing, action scenes, male point of view, description etc. And when one of us starts a new project, we verbalize or write an outline of … Continue reading
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Tagged book plots, Characters, David Morrell, emotions, gratuitious story scenes, gratuitous humor, gratutious sex, gratutitous scenes, Lessons From a Lifetime of Writing, Plot elements, plots, plotter vs. pantser, Sharla Rae, story events, story Theme, Theme, Writers in the Storm, Writing Craft
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