character goals | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:16:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg character goals | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 Scene Arcs https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/10/scene-arcs/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/10/scene-arcs/#comments Mon, 07 Oct 2013 11:00:57 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=9153 By Shannon Donnelly Everyone knows there’s a story arc—story goes up in tension, reaches a peak, and falls down. And there are character arcs, too, since story is character and character is story. But what about your scene arcs? That’s right—every scene needs an arc. Jack M. Bickham (a student of Dwight Swain, whose book […]

The post Scene Arcs first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/10/scene-arcs/feed/ 38 Plot Fixer: Part 3 -- A Lack of Goals https://writersinthestormblog.com/2012/06/plot-fixer-part-3-a-lack-of-goals/ Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:00:08 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=5444 Writers In The Storm welcomes back Kara Lennox, a.k.a. Karen Leabo for some more plot-fixing magic. Kara is an award-winning, bestselling author of more than sixty novels of romance and romantic suspense for Harlequin and Random House. AND she’s a 2012 DOUBLE RITA Finalist! Problem #4: A lack of clear-cut goals for your characters In […]

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