How Writers Can Mine Emotions with Music – by C.S. Lakin…
How Writers Can Mine Emotions with Music – by C.S. Lakin… Read here …
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How to Write the Perfect Author Bio – by C.S. Lakin…
How to Write the Perfect Author Bio – by C.S. Lakin… Read here …
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Microtension: The Magic That Makes Readers Turn Pages – by C.S. Lakin…
Microtension: The Magic That Makes Readers Turn Pages – by C.S. Lakin… Read here …
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How to Effectively Bring Sound into Your Fiction – by C.S. Lakin…
Today’s post is a reprint from some years back, but it’s one that deserves revisiting! Sound may not be something writers pay much attention to when they work on their novels. Of course, there usually is a significant amount of dialog, and there may occasionally be found a noise shown in the scene, such as […]
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3 Powerful Cinematic Techniques for Novelists – by C.S.Lakin…
3 Powerful Cinematic Techniques for Novelists – by C.S.Lakin… Read here …
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How Does Internal Conflict Fit into the Character’s Arc? – by Becca Puglisi…
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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7 Ways to Create an Empathetic Antagonist by C. S. Lakin
7 Ways to Create an Empathetic Antagonist Today’s guest post is by Sarah Tinsley. “Complexity is an indispensable ingredient of life, and so it ought to be with the characters we create in our stories”— Stavros Halvatzis Everyone loves a good antagonist. From the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood to Cersei in A Game […]
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3 Ways to Make Your Novel’s First Page Cinematic – by C.S. Lakin…
3 Ways to Make Your Novel’s First Page Cinematic – by C.S. Lakin… on Live Write Thrive: Readers will often stop reading before they finish the first page of your story. While this has always been true, in this fast-paced age that foments impatience, it’s even more true. If a writer doesn’t deliver what a reader […]
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6 Tips to Make Your Scenes Visually Dynamic – by C.S. Lakin…
6 Tips to Make Your Scenes Visually Dynamic – by C.S. Lakin… on Live Write Thrive: Many of us were raised watching thousands of movies and television shows. The style, technique, and methods used in film and TV are so familiar to us, we process them comfortably. To some degree, we now expect these elements to […]
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Crafting Great Characters Starts and Ends with Motivation – by C.S. Lakin…
Crafting Great Characters Starts and Ends with Motivation – by C.S. Lakin… on Live Write Thrive: This material ran on my blog four years ago, but it’s worth sharing again! Most fiction writers know that character is at the heart of a story. Whether you are writing short or long fiction, you need terrific characters. But […]
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