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

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Complete Guide to Creating a Character That Readers Will Love – A Study of Han Solo

Last week, we came up with a few killer themes to work around. The next thing I like to tackle is creating a character that readers will love. Creating a character of your own can be tough work, but if you keep in mind what your theme is, creating a likable character can be much

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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 – short write

We are getting closer to the start line.  I’m not sure about you, but I’m starting to get a little nervous. Our stories should be about plotted out.  I don’t want to add too much more to what we already wrote.  A word of warning here: don’t feel like you have to stick 100% to

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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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NaNo Prep – Act 2

Hopefully, you guys are making some good progress.  I haven’t had any time to actually spend on my own novel prep, but hopefully, that will change this weekend.  Even though I haven’t sat down to plan this out, I have been running through these prep ideas in my head. Still, I have lots to plan.

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NaNo Prep – Conflict

Yesterday, we filled in some of the space between the beginning and the start of Act 2.  Hopefully, you’re having fun and your answering some of the questions that a reader might have about character. Before we go much further, I want us to really look back at what we’ve done so far.  So all

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NaNo Prep – Act breaks

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