on Writers Helping Writers: Any Tolkien fans in the house? I remember, as a teen, reading The Hobbit by the fire on a rare cold evening in Florida. It became a favorite that I would re-read until my copy literally fell to pieces. One of my favorite scenes comes right at the beginning: the Unexpected Party. There […]
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9 Tension-Building Elements For Character Dialogue – by Becca Puglisi… Read here …
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How to Reveal a Character’s Internal Conflict – by Becca Puglisi… If you’ve been on the writing trail long enough, you’ve heard plenty of talk about conflict and the role it plays in storytelling. Whatever form it takes, conflict creates tension while providing opportunities for characters to grow and evolve as they navigate their character arcs. […]
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Using Conflict to Build Tension – by Becca Puglisi… Read here …
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How Does Internal Conflict Fit into the Character’s Arc? – by Becca Puglisi… oday’s guest post is by Becca Puglisi. If you’re writing a story in which your character will need to evolve internally to achieve his goal, a cohesive and well-planned character arc will be vital to its success. This type of arc (a change […]
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Need Compelling Conflict? Choose A Variety of Kinds – by Becca Puglisi… All right, hands up: What’s the one thing we can’t get enough of in fiction but we avoid like a screaming toddler in real life? Conflict. It’s ironic that something we try to avoid in the real world is the very thing we […]
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Fight, Flight, or Freeze: What’s Your Character’s Go-To Response? – by Becca Puglisi… on Writers Helping Writers: Fight or flight. I think we’ve all heard the phrase. It refers to the way each person is hard-wired to react to real or perceived danger. Psychologists have recently added another option, giving us three ways we might respond […]
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