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April 25, 2014

Raising Your Story’s Stakes by Kay Keppler

As in a game, readers want to know what’s at stake. Is it life? Love? Friendship? Money? The ranch? The locket? Readers have to know what your hero or heroine will gain or lose in the story

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November 21, 2013

Character Conflict: Characters in Opposition by Kay Keppler

If you write any kind of commercial fiction, conflict is required. Nobody wants to read a story about happy people who have great jobs, raise wonderful children, do meaningful volunteer work, and lose all the weight they gain after the holidays.

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