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Any writer worth their salt knows that characters are at the center of good fiction. You can write the best story in the world but, if your characters are flat stereotypes, no one’ll even make it to the end. Characters breathe life into your fiction, they populate the worlds you create, and they drive the plot forward. They’re the most vital thing to get right in your own writing – but, of course, …
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The enneagram is hot right now, and for good reason. The personality assessment tool takes a deep dive into the patterns of behavior, driving needs, and core worldviews underlying nine personality types. Enneagram support tools discuss unhealthy and healthy expressions of each personality type, growth trajectories, and how the nine different types interact with one another. Whether you think …
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Sometimes, you’re midway through a story and you suddenly realize what you need to change to make it work. A later development requires some earlier foreshadowing, or you need to remove a detail so your new path makes sense. It’s a lightbulb moment, and often the point where a story really comes together for many writers, but what do you do if you can’t make the change? In fact, what do you do if …
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Like a lot of literary theory, the concept of carnivalesque literature works on a number of levels. The first of these is pure inspiration; it’s a source of striking narratives and imagery that can spark ideas and add to your narrative. The second is as an observation of societal behavior – the carnivalesque describes a consistent model of cause, effect, and motivation that, if understood, allows …
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When it comes to writing description, advice tends to be sparse. Where should you focus? What’s important? When has a descriptive passage outstayed its welcome? They’re difficult questions because they deal with subjective tastes, but there’s one piece of advice that you can use as your guiding light. It’s that piece of advice that we’ll be considering today, as well as a few other descriptive …
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If genre fiction is Die Hard, The Notebook, and The Hangover – stuff you watch to relax and eat popcorn to – literary fiction is the opposite. It’s the Citizen Kane, The Pianist, the There Will Be Blood of the literary world – books you wouldn’t necessarily call a ‘good time’ but that are artistic, intelligent, and affecting on some deep level. To be lazy and reductive: literary fiction is a …
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