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Inner conflict is one of the most powerful sources of character tension because it forces a protagonist to wrestle with competing wants, fears, beliefs, duties, and values. But what happens when the character simply refuses to act? Writers need an effective way escalate the situation until that unresolved inner conflict can no longer be ignored.
This is where e...
Readers LOVE morally gray characters. Go on Instagram or TikTok and it’s all everyone is talking about. Antiheroes who screw with our perception of the ‘greater good’ … Villains with traumatic backstories … Antagonists doing the wrong thing for the right reasons.
This is catnip for your target reader! But there’s a problem. Writers often get mixed up because te...
At some point in our writing journey (or life in general), we’ll all struggle with procrastination and distractions. At the same time, we all probably have way too much on our to-do list and not nearly enough time, so losing time (time that we don’t have) can be stressful.
Much has been written about how to overcome this issue, and while the suggestions can som...
Ah, backstory. According to many, this is the BIG BAD WORD in fiction. How many times have you heard someone say, “Backstory is bad, strip it from the scene!” or, “Backstory slows the pace, bogs down the action, and will only bore ...