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Primary and Secondary Emotions Can Unlock Your Characters - A character holds his head, surrounded by emoji-style faces.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

Primary and Secondary Emotions Can Unlock Your Characters

Most of us are familiar with the idea that characters need to be multidimensional to be believable. E.M. Forster gave us terms for this discussion, ‘flat’ and ‘round’ characters, but the term ‘well-rounded’ predates Forster by at least a century, and the discussion of emotional complexity is as old as history. People simply aren’t simple,

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How To Make An Unlikable Protagonist Work For Your Story - A bully brays, surrounded by skulls.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

How To Make An Unlikable Protagonist Work For Your Story

Literature and TV are chock-full of compelling but detestable protagonists. Even when these characters don’t undergo a dramatic transformation – à la Ebenezer Scrooge – they captivate an audience and are often wildly popular. Let’s explore what makes unlikable protagonists work. There’s a little bit of human psychology behind it and plenty of literary mechanism.

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What You Need to Know About Doubling and Doppelgängers - A character points to an identical twin.
Writing
Robert Wood

What You Need to Know About Doubling and Doppelgängers

As far as literary tools go, doubling and doppelgängers aren’t exactly the most inviting. Doubles can be difficult to define, and umlauts don’t scream ‘easily accessible’. Despite this, it’s worth persevering, because these tools are a lot more versatile than you might think, strengthening themes and plot points, and forging connections within your story that

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How To Write A Character Who Can Carry A Series - A superhero carries a stack of books.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

How To Write A Character Who Can Carry A Series

Launching a series is golden. It’s that moment in Minesweeper when you hit the right square and a safety zone unfurls. You have eager readers for your next book. You have an agent waiting to read your manuscript. You have characters and backdrops for a long, long time. Or… do you? It’s not easy to

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