These are what I would consider to be the most basic, bare-bones questions of character creation. What would completely break your character? What was the best thing in your character's life? What was...

Scattered between our fun Fan Stories, I am inserting the first of (I believe) three Guest Posts for improving and/or learning about our writing. So, with no further introductions (none needed), here is a guest post from Rebecca M., from Rebecca's Reading Room. Hello Writers, Mrs. M. was very kind and invited me to guest post for her about writing. I didn't used to like writing. In fact, it was nearly as bad as math when I was in school! (And that was bad.) In my years of writing, I've come…

Whether it’s spiders, heights, socializing, public speaking, deep water, patterns, or even themselves, most every character you’ll ever write will face some debilitating fear or phobia. In today’s...

One of the debilitating battles that your characters may encounter is the struggle against their own, personal form of loneliness. While it takes many forms, loneliness is a sense of hurt, sadness,...

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The Psychology of Writing: Character Development and Anger Sooner or later, your character is going to get mad. And I don’t mean “mad dog” mad, I mean steam-out-the-nostrils mad. Because anger is such...

From The Lion King to The Lord of the Rings, every great story features characters that experience sadness. Grief is a natural part of the human condition, and learning to write sadness believably is...

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Proof is a 2000 play by the American playwright David Auburn. Context: Catherine tells Hal, a former student of her father’s, about her experience living with her father in the last years of his life....

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