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Category: Writing Craft

Will Your Character Fight, Flee, or Freeze?

Julie Glover explains acute stress response and shows how writers can use fight, flight, or freeze to ratchet up tension and reveal character.

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Let Your Characters Tell the Story

Eldred Bird breaks down multiple techniques for bringing the characters alive on the page.

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Use Comparison for Power

Laura Drake shows how similes, metaphors, and eponyms can be great descriptive tools for writers—with examples!

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Visual-Spatial Tools for Mapping—and Enhancing—Your Story

Barbara Linn Probst shares fantastic tools to map out your story and see its patterns and relationships.

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Show, Don’t Tell: The 3 Most Misunderstood Words in a Writer’s Vocabulary

Lori Freeland demonstrates when and how to "show don't tell," with lots of great examples and tips!

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