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Character Development Advice: 5 Tips for Creating Characters that Breathe and Move and Can’t Stop Talking

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Editor’s note: This is the second of two articles (first here) on the fundamentals of character development written for Writers.com by our instructor Gloria Kempton, in support of a full character development course she’s developing. In this article, Gloria answers a number of commonsense questions about character development. 1. What makes a character relatable? Vulnerability. […]

Essential Character Development Questions: 3 Questions to Ask Every Character You Write

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Editor’s note: This is the first of two articles (second here) on the fundamentals of character development written for Writers.com by our instructor Gloria Kempton, in support of a full character development course she’s developing. In this article, Gloria covers the three essential questions you should ask each character you write. There are three questions […]

How to Write a Short Story: The Short Story Checklist

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Editor’s note: Below is a collection of practical short story writing tips by Writers.com instructor Rosemary Tantra Bensko. Each paragraph is its own checklist item: a core element of short story writing advice to follow unless you have clear reasons to the contrary. We hope it’s a helpful resource in your own writing. How to […]

Eight Questions About the Novella, Answered

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In this interview, Writers.com instructor Jack Smith answers our top eight questions about the novella form—everything from “How many words in a novella?” to his best advice on learning the novella form, writing, and maybe even publishing your own novella. 1. What is a novella, and how many words are there in a novella? What distinguishes […]

Overcoming Writing Anxiety

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Editor’s Note: In this article, instructor Dennis Foley gives his best tips and perspectives on overcoming writing anxiety. His advice is geared toward novelists, but is equally valuable for any form of creative writing. We’ve all been there. Writer anxiety Yep, at some point in the process of writing a novel, you will suddenly be […]

Seven Questions for Your Writing Journey in 2020

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In our view, writing should not be a popularity contest, a struggle for validation, or a competitive sport. Instead, writing is a personal journey: an ongoing exploration, personally meaningful in ways and for reasons that are unique to each one of us, and with destinations that we ourselves choose and venture toward. In this article, […]

How a Memoir Writing Coach Can Help: Author Interview

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In this interview, author Clyde E. Fant describes his work with Writers.com instructor Sandra Novack on his recently-published memoir, The World in Black and White. We discuss Clyde’s experience of the memoir writing process, and how Sandra’s memoir writing help affected every aspect of the manuscript, from the sentence level to the overall narrative structure. […]

Embodied Writing: Interview with Rosemary Tantra Bensko

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In this interview, Writers.com instructor Rosemary Tantra Bensko discusses her practice of embodied writing, a creative writing process that uses movement exercises to access the wisdom of the whole body. How did you get interested in the relationship between writing and the body? Around five years ago, I was reading the new reports that came out […]

The 8 Best Places to Submit Poetry Online

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With new technology comes endless possibilities for poetry writers—including getting published online. Wherever you’re at in your poetry journey, there are loads of places to submit poetry online. Most websites seem to promise the world, but it can be hard to know which sites are legitimate for online poetry submissions. That’s why we’ve done the hard work […]
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