September 5th, 2012
5 Quick Fixes to Make Readers Love Your Villains
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Blogging Guests | Writing Craft
Writers In The Storm welcomes back award-winning author and RWA RITA-nominee, Shannon Donnelly.
Today she’s talking to us about villains we love to hate and how to keep them from becoming a cardboard stereotype whose every action is predictable and boring.… Read the post
May 25th, 2012
Dialogue is King
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Blogging Guests | Miscellaneous | Tiffany Lawson Inman | Writing Craft
In theatre, dialogue is king. It is the lifeline of the story. Character's lines bouncing back and forth between each other. Confiding, conspiring, commiserating, coercing, or caring. Dialogue works to create emotion, conflict, show character, and it always moves the dramatic action forward.… Read the post
July 1st, 2011
The Hero's Journey: A Thumbnail Sketch of Real Life
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Blogging Guests | Writing Craft
Writers In The Storm is thrilled to welcome this week’s Sensational Summer guest blogger, Connie Flynn!
Connie has published ten novels and several short stories. Her werewolf series was recently reissued by Back In Print and is available on Amazon.com.… Read the post
June 27th, 2011
Writing The Big Picture - Don't Trash The Roadmap
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Writing Craft
By Sharla Rae
In our WITS crit group, we all have our individual critiquing talents: grammar, tight writing, action scenes, male point of view, description etc. And when one of us starts a new project, we verbalize or write an outline of the story so that our partners can critique the individual story elements as well as the Big Picture.… Read the post
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