Character Voice: Why Your Characters Shouldn’t Sound Like You
If you have ever finished a chapter and realized that your heroine, antagonist, mentor, best friend, and minor characters all seem to possess the same…
The Introduction They’ll Give You Someday
Imagine this. Years from now, you’re sitting in an audience, listening to your name being called. You’ve spent years writing, rewriting, learning your craft, finding…
12 Things Writers Get Wrong About Building a Character’s Physical Presence
Have you ever read a book where the character felt so real that you caught yourself wanting to tell them about your day — before…
How to Describe Your Character’s Skin: A Skin Description Vault for Writers
When you create a character, every detail tells your reader something about who they are. Their clothing, their posture, their voice, and even their skin…
12 Things Writers Get Wrong About Combat Training (And What Actually Happens)
Most writers write training scenes like a movie montage. A quick sequence of sweating, grunting, and determined faces. A few weeks of fictional time compressed…
12 Ancient Books All Writers Should Read Before Writing Angels, Prophecy, or the Supernatural
These 12 books go beyond the 66-canon books into texts that serious biblical scholars and faith writers reference but most church-raised readers have never been…
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20 Behavioural Traits That Make Unhinged Characters Unforgettable | Part 1
Every unforgettable character has flaws. Especially when writing unhinged characters Every iconic character has dangerous flaws. The problem is that too many writers confuse "unhinged"…
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8 Mistakes Writers Make Writing Black Hair
If you're writing Black characters, their hair isn't an accessory — it's part of the character's lived experience. Whether your character is Black, biracial, Black-Latina,…
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The Craft of Writing Your Character’s Physical Description
What you need to know when you're writing the description of your characters. The difference between describing beauty and describing presence — and why one…
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The Reason Your Fight Scenes Fall Flat Has Nothing To Do With Plot — It’s Your Verbs
There's a moment every fiction writer knows. You've built the scene. You know exactly what happens. The tension is there, the stakes are real, the…