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On Plot, Character, & World
Plot
Plot
Character
World
Voice, Tension, & Prose
Public Resources
Magical Cookies
(2016 edition)
When the Magical Cookies Are Wrong
Magical Cookies
(2018 edition)
Unstick Your Plot with Emotional Dominoes
How I Deepen Plots
Writing Out of Order
Crafting Story Resonance
Nested Conflict
Understanding Story Beats
Earned Story Payoffs
Writing Big Complicated Stories
(Substack paid)
How to Structure a Scene
(Subsatck paid)
Developing Your Characters
Desperate Desires for your Characters
Fatal Flaws & Character Arcs
Leveling Up Your Characters
Understanding Story Beats
Dragging Characters through the Wringer
Intersection of Character & Theme
The Usefulness of Maps
How to Level Up Your Settings, part 1
How to Level Up Your Settings, part 2
(Substack paid)
An Exercise in Romance
Finding Your Voice, Part 1
Finding Your Voice, Part 2
Tapping into the Power of Free Writing
Show versus Tell
(2018 edition)
Building Tension
An Easy Trick for Show Versus Tell
(2022 edition)
How to Build Tension in Your Fight Scenes
Magical Cookies, or Don’t Write the Boring Parts
A Simple Show vs. Tell Troubleshoot
Simple Tricks to Unstick Your Plot: the Domino Effect
Simple Tricks to Unstick Your Plot: Where is Everyone?
Building Plot from Character
Scenes: What are they and how do you write them?
Taking Tips from the Movies and TV
Understanding Reader Expectations
Creating Memorable Characters:
Protagonists
and
Antagonists
Knowing my Endings–Or Not
Researching for your Novel
Balancing Description and Infodump
A Collection of IG Stories About Revising
(video)
Show Don’t Tell in Action
(video)
On World Building
(video with author Akshaya Raman)
Character Building & Deep POV
(video with author Akshaya Raman)