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Category: Writing Craft

How to Kill a Character

Sarah (Sally) Hamer offers three questions to ask to help you to decide why or when, or whether it needs to happen at all.

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5 Home Defense Techniques for Any Character

Today, my military and intelligence veteran writing partner and I are showing ways characters can protect themselves in their homes against impending threats.

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The Torment and Bliss of the Crappy First Draft 

Writing is hard but it shouldn’t always be hard. Yeah, you're told a writer suffers and the first draft is crappy. Turn those negatives into positives.

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4 Story Moments that Don’t Need Conflict

To engage readers' feelings, writers can threaten the protagonist readers have come to know and love. This is where emotion amplifiers can be useful.

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Writing Fast or Slow, Deep Editing is the Way to Go!

Margie Lawson shares from her deep editing tips.
Writing one book a year?
You can use more of her deep editing techniques!

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