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Tips to Creating a Great Story Outline – Plotting a Character Arc with 5 Scenes

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Writing in a book - developing a theme to drive the story

Developing a Killer Theme

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NaNoWriMo Preparation – Time to Get Those Ideas Down!

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NaNo Prep – The last act

I’m going to keep this one pretty short and sweet tonight. You know the drill by now, after all.  We’ve filled in Acts 1 with scenes that answered the questions you had about your character.  We split Act 2 building our characters up and knocking them down.   When last we left, our character was headed

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How I Write – Part 5 – Writing

As if all the other things I’ve done haven’t been daunting enough, this is the most daunting yet. Looking at a blank page can be scary.  Hopefully, by this point in the writing process, I’m pretty excited in my story and I’m ready to go, but sometimes I might be overwhelmed by how I’m going

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Ed Sheeran’s Songwriter

This month, Apple Music released a documentary called Songwriter. In the documentary, Ed Sheeran’s cousin follows him around with a camera while making his latest album ÷ (Deluxe).

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