Sometimes what’s in your head isn’t what comes across on the page. Create a 3-D effect for readers and using sensory details to convey motive/goals/priorities, and emotions.
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Deep Point Of View
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Brene Brown’s Guide To Creating An Emotional Arc Using Shame
Shame is one of the most powerful and underused emotions in a fiction-writer’s toolbox. Shame is pervasive and common, it’s ugly and hard to capture well, but deep point of view is the perfect technique to use with this complex emotion. Readers cheer for characters who are relate-able, who stand…
How To Write Fiction - Advanced Tips
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How To Write Fear That Connects Emotionally With Readers
For readers to get chills, explore the root causes of fear, make reactions individual to your character, and keep surprising your readers.
How To Write Fiction - Advanced Tips
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Advice From Jack Sparrow On Building Emotional Connections With Readers
Captain Jack Sparrow, love him or hate him, most people FEEL something for the irrascible pirate. What can Jack Sparrow teach us about creating emotional connections with readers? Lots. Savvy? There are many posts out there on the interwebz for writers looking for advice on how to create emotional connections…
Business Of Writing
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4 Questions To Ask To Avoid Info Dumps In Deep Point Of View
No one likes reading an info dump, but we writers justify their existence because we’re sure the reader needs all this background information here, right now. Info dumps kill the pace and tension in your story and readers may just put down your book and walk away forever. What Is…
Deep Point Of View
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Top 10 Posts of 2018
Good-bye 2018!! Was 2018 a year that saw your writing become a priority or was it a year where maybe some things didn’t quite go as you’d planned them to? Either way, another year another blank chapter. Let this be the year you make the most of your writing dreams,…