The Goal, Motivation, Conflict, and Need by Kat Caldwell
If you feel stuck, it’s time to return to the goal, motivation, conflict, and need of your story. Find out how with Kat Caldwell.
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Your Creativity Spark: Passion to Write
Your Creativity Spark: Passion to Write – How To Write the Future, podcast episode 51 “Write with all your senses and let your mind wander far and deep and into the past. Or far...
Three Steps to Three Dimensional Characters by Laurel Osterkamp
Three dimensional characters make better stories, here are three steps authors can use to help readers connect to their characters.
The List of Thoughts To Think When You Sit Down To Write by Kim Lozano
When you wait for inspiration, sometimes it never shows up. Kim Lozano shares her list of thoughts (literally!) for getting into the right mindset to write, strategically influencing our own emotions.
What Motivates You To Write? by Beth Barany
What motivates you as a writer? That’s what I would like to know. Do you want to leave a legacy? Do you want to write down your stories? Because. Just because. Because your characters...
On Writing Conflict (GMC: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict — The ABCs of Writing) by Tinthia Clemant
Welcome to Tinthia Clemant’s third post in her three-part series on Goal, Motivation, , and Conflict — The ABCs of Writing. This one focuses on your character’s and story’s conflict.
On Your Character’s Motivation (GMC: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict, The ABCs of Writing) by Tinthia Clemant
Welcome to Tinthia Clemant’s second post in her three-part series on Goal, Motivation, and Conflict — The ABCs of Writing. This one focuses on your character’s motivation.
GMC: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict — The ABCs of Writing by Tinthia Clemant
Goals versus Desires – Wanting something is a desire; working to obtain that something is the goal.
Finding Your Character’s Motivation by Kay Keppler
When you develop your characters, you want them to be consistent so that readers can understand and perhaps identify with them. Your characters’ actions don’t have to be smart, but they must be done for a reason.
Getting into the Head of Your Antagonists by Raina Schell
Let’s welcome back monthly columnist Raina Schell as she shares with us “Getting into the Head of Your Antagonists.”
The Benefits of a Writers Conference, Workshop or Retreat By Raina Schell
It is my belief that every writer should go to a writer’s conference at least once, whether it’s in your genre or not. There are plenty of people who go to the RWA Conference who are not “romance writers” per say.
#amwalking #amwriting Longing, Desire, and Motivation by Beth Barany
My #amwalking #amwriting Video How do you notice your longing, desire, or motivation? Please share in the comments below. Thanks! What counts is that you show up and do the work, whether it be...
Is your character’s motivation strong enough? by Carol Malone
“Trevor’s only wanted to raise her girls and fight for her community nursing program. She didn’t have time to be distracted by the hot fireman she burned years ago by refusing his marriage proposal. If she could just remind herself of her desires each day, it wouldn’t be so hard working closely with him to help his father recover from a stroke.” Take Harte a novel by Carol Malone.
Backstory: Leave It In The Past By Kay Keppler
You have a great story with wonderful characters who overcame grievous wounds—abused childhoods, broken marriages, or alcoholic parents. How do you handle the task of explaining these life-defining experiences? In prologue, dialogue, monologue, exposition, flashback?
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