Characters

7 Hitchcockian Secrets To Writing Amazing Suspense - An image reminiscent of the shower scene from Psycho.
Writing
Tony Lee Moral

7 Hitchcockian Secrets To Writing Amazing Suspense

Tony Lee Moral is the author of three books on Alfred Hitchcock: Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie; The Making of Hitchcock’s The Birds and Alfred Hitchcock’s Movie Making Masterclass. His new novel, a Hitchcockian suspense mystery, Ghost Maven, is published by Cactus Moon Publications. When plotting my new novel Ghost Maven, I could find no

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Writing Loki – Why Your Novel Needs A Trickster - The Norse god Loki holds up a glowing scepter.
Writing
Hannah Collins

Writing Loki – Why Your Novel Needs A Trickster

Mischievous and chaotic, the trickster is a character archetype that recurs throughout mythology, folklore, literature and pop culture. This is, in part, thanks to its boundless flexibility: tricksters can be good, evil or amoral; hero or villain; help or hindrance; spiteful or angelic; comic-relief, obstacle, gatekeeper, sidekick and/or henchperson. Despite this ambiguity of role, essayist Paul

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Learn How To Research Your Book With This Beginner's Guide - An author researches at superspeed.
Writing
Paige Duke

Learn How To Research Your Book With This Beginner’s Guide

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever Googled while writing your book? I bet you have some good ones. Writers are always researching the most interesting things in order to write with authority on a wide range of subjects. Research is a necessary part of writing almost any book, regardless of genre or subject matter. Some

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How To Give Your Hero Some Personality - Two bland characters stand on pedestals, while a third, more lively, steps forward.
Writing
Hannah Collins

How To Give Your Hero Some Personality

Despite what Isabel Briggs Myers has taught us, real people’s personalities can usually be difficult to fit comfortably into neat little categories. People can be both introverted and extroverted, and go from being supremely self-confident to shrinking violets depending on their situation. The task of imbuing something as complex and unique as a personality onto

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