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Is The Halo Effect Exactly What Your Characters Need? - A woman stares at an angel, hearts in her eyes.
Writing
Robert Wood

Is The Halo Effect Exactly What Your Characters Need?

In writing, and most artistic endeavors, artists have the benefit of accessing and utilizing a wide range of tools. These tools can be complex and take a lot of work – like successfully folding your writing – while others – like quadrant theory – are more about understanding and refining what we already half-understand as

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Cryptomnesia Can Kill Your Writing Career – Here’s How To Avoid It - A writer 'invents' Star Wars.
Writing
Robert Wood

Cryptomnesia Can Kill Your Writing Career – Here’s How To Avoid It

A writer’s mind is an amazing thing, trapping the minor details of everyday life to twist, inspect, and repurpose in fiction. Often, authors can’t say where their inspiration comes from – it’s too diffuse; disparate concepts being brought together through an alchemy that you can command without truly understanding. But what happens when that process

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Psychology 101: Knowledge That Will Improve Your Writing (Part 2) - An author holds up their brain, which is thinking about writing.
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Robert Wood

Psychology 101: Knowledge That Will Improve Your Writing – Part 2

This is Part 2 of this article – Part 1 can be found here. In Part 1 of this article, we explored how psychological experiments and theories of the past can help you influence your characters to misremember and misunderstand reality, and how sophisticated techniques give you more power over your readers than you might

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Are You Dressing Your Characters For Success? - An author selects their character's clothing.
Writing
Paige Duke

Are You Dressing Your Characters For Success?

In life, we can tell a lot about a person by how they dress. We make first impressions – right or wrong – about someone’s personality, values, priorities, and preferences by what they wear. These impressions may be undermined and revised over time as we get to know a person, or perhaps they only get

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