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Fiction

Top 10 Tips on Writing a Properly Flawed Main Character

Creating a compelling main character is essential to any work of fiction, but creating a character that is perfectly good in every way can be a recipe for a dull story. That’s why it’s important to make your main character flawed. By making your main character flawed, you can create tension, conflict, and depth that

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Creative Writing

There are many ways to fight writer’s block, find inspiration

Don’t feel like writing? Join the club. Sometimes life is too busy, and our brains are too crowded with schedules, appointments and commitments. Sometimes we lack ideas or confidence. A clear mind allows room for inspiration, but how can we banish the mental detritus? Nature can nurture, so heading for an unpeopled locale can be

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Creative Writing

TUCKER ON Writing Well

Over 30 years ago, I received my bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Tennessee. Despite the passing of time, I still hold dear two items from my five-year educational journey: my framed diploma and a small book entitled “The Word: An Associated Press Guide to Good News Writing” by Rene J. Cappon. This

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SCRIPTWRITING | SCREENPLAY

Please write more great characters for women over 50

Following Jennifer Coolidge‘s recent win at the Golden Globes as Best Supporting Actress for The White Lotus Tamzin Outhwaite tweeted a plea for writers to create more great roles for mature women. In our latest blog post featuring guests discussing the topics that they feel are affecting the industry, we caught up with Tamzin to

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QUEUE

Different Types of Characters in a Story

When you’re writing, you have different tools and components at your disposal—plot, structure, character, theme, etc. You manipulate these things to make your work the best it can be and having a good understanding of how all of these components work means you can move them around with intention. Characters are sort of like pawns.

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Character

Want to create great characters in your writing? Try this

‘This week in Second Saturday Stories I want to focus on an element of writing, rather than the writing itself if you’ll permit me’ Second Saturday Stories Title Image I want to make my characters jump off the page. I know many writers who share this desire. Because let’s face it, if you don’t have

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