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updated on 15 June 202111 June 2021Characterisation Writing Writing Techniques

How To Write Perseverance As A Character Trait

Your characters will all have different qualities. You need to give your characters distinct personalities to ensure they are clean and interesting. If all your characters blur into one, they will be boring. You need to give some characters positive traits, and others need to be more negative. However, there are going to be certain qualities that are useful in both the Protagonist and Antagonist of your story. I’ll be exploring the use of perseverance as a character trait.

updated on 27 April 202126 April 2021Story Structure Writing

How To Keep Your Story Conflict Active In Every Scene

Your story follows your Protagonist on a journey to achieve a story goal, and your Antagonist trying to stop them. As long as these characters are motivated, your story conflict is active. I’ll explain why an active story conflict is essential to keep your story moving forwards and entertaining.

updated on 31 May 202111 April 2021Characterisation Writing Writing Techniques

How To Write A Successful Protagonist Partnership

Whilst most stories focus on one protagonist, a protagonist partnership can work really well for others. I’ll explore what a protagonist partnership is, what it …

updated on 12 April 20216 April 2021Characterisation Writing Writing Techniques

Top Reasons To Rip Away Your Character’s Emotional Support System

When you start your story, you will most likely put in an emotional support system around your Protagonist. You give them friends, family, and work colleagues. People who they can trust and talk to, even in times of crisis. in this blog I’ll be explaining the reasons why, throughout the course of your story, you should rip those emotional support systems away.

updated on 8 April 202129 March 2021Characterisation Writing Writing Techniques

Top Reasons Why Your Audience Will Love A Character Who Will Risk It All

To make sure your audience is fully invested in seeing if your Protagonist gets what they want, you need to show them why it matters. In this piece, I’ll explain why your audience will love a character who risks it all, and who to write one.

updated on 8 April 202121 March 2021Characterisation Story Structure Writing

Top Reasons Why Side Adventures Make Your Audience Stop Caring

Keeping your audience caring about this story, these characters, is essential. It means they’ll finish this story, then trust you enough to come back for more.

updated on 12 May 202111 February 2021Story Structure Writing Writing Techniques

How To Control Your Story Pace

The pace of your story is how quickly it moves from one plot point to another, and is controlled by the details between the plot points. A slower paced story will include more thoughts, feelings and descriptions. A faster pace will use fewer.

updated on 8 April 202121 January 2021Characterisation Writing Writing Techniques

How To Write A Dystopian Story

Dystopian fiction deals with a future where the world has been changed, and not for the better. They are entertaining because they’re high drama, and they’re important because they can teach us something important about our humanity. Dystopia takes away the freedoms of the people, in a variety of different ways, and then explores the consequences.

updated on 8 April 20211 January 2021Characterisation Writers Life Writing

How To Start Writing In 2021

2021 can be the year of your story. The year you finally get to write “The End.” And I can help you. The world needs more stories, so let’s make yours one of them.

updated on 24 May 20215 December 2020Characterisation Writing Writing Techniques

Why Killing Henchmen Can Make Your Hero Unlikeable

The problem with henchmen is that if you’re writing a hero who is intended to be morally pure, you can’t have just slaughter the henchmen. I’ll be talking about the different ways of writing henchmen for different styles of story.

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