Emotions serve three specific purposes: to inform us, to protect us, to warn us. It's a framework to find the why behind what your character thinks and does.

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

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by Angela Ackerman A friend of mine, the talented YA author Martina Boone, debuted last year with Compulsion, a southern gothic mystery romance novel showcasing a protagonist with the most unique and amazing talent: she is a finder of lost things. For her, this inherited talent (sometimes a curse, sometimes a boon), acts a compulsion--when […]