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How Conflict Enhances Your Story

by Ellen L. Buikema

We want the best for our characters, but no conflict means bored, or few, readers.

A hero has a quest and is warned that the road is fraught with peril. However, the hero discovers they are fantastic at everything.… Read the post

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How to Focus on Your Story's DNA

 

Though we are a very cohesive group here at Writers in the Storm, we are split down the middle in writing style. Laura and Fae write their stories in a linear fashion while Julie and I quilt ours together scene by scene.… Read the post

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Chinese Element Personality Types-for Fun and for Writing

by Fae Rowen

Announcement: Kristen Lamb will be our guest on Friday with "Novel Diagnostics".

At the beginning of the year, I usually cycle back to the questions "Who am I?" and "Why am I here?"

I was thinking about Chinese New Year and the Year of the Dragon and remembered it's been awhile since I visited the Chinese Medicine Five Element Personality Types I first read and studied a decade ago.… Read the post

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