ioddididso So you’re writing your story, completing chapter after chapter, imagining the big leagues for your book, when all of a sudden it hits you: your main character is boring as hell. NO. How did this happen? You were so careful this time and your intention was in fact to make the coolest literary character […]
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I owe a lot of my writing skills to my creative writing-specific classes that I took during college. However, my writing outlook on life changed forever when I took my first screenwriting class. Before it, I had all of these questions about the supposedly intangible writing process. Why is the middle of my story falling
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In the writing community, I’ve discovered that the issue of whether or not to outline your book is a hot topic. Some writers swear by the process and others are vehemently against it. For most of my life, I was definitely a writer who lived and breathed her outline. I took joy in planning out
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