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How to Create Characters Who Intrigue, not Overshare

by Shirley Jump

Image is a cartoon of a man using a megaphone to announce to his co-workers, My wife has a terrible rash. My Viagra came in the mail yesterday. "Like my new Toupee?" His co-workers are two women (one holding a mug of coffee, the other holding a stack of papers) and a man with thought bubbles that are blank but have lines short radiating lines indicating shock or embarrassment.

I once had a neighbor I barely knew show me her new boob job as I was walking by to get the mail. It was definitely more information than I wanted to have (and totally unsolicited), and coupled with some stories she told me the day we moved in, made me want to steer very, very, very far away from her and her husband.… Read the post

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Using Impossible Choices to Empower Your Conflict

By Shirley Jump

two fists showing empowered conflict

You want to know how to make a book that is so incredibly compelling, the reader can’t put it down, and must stay up until two in the morning to see how it ends? It’s simple, if you understand what drives connection between the reader and the character.… Read the post

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