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Write Powerful Subplots and Secondary Characters with Story Genius
If you’ve been following this three-part series, you know that Lisa Cron’s Story Genius is a valuable book guiding writers through the scene card process. Post one was all about getting to know our protagonist before crafting the story. In post two, we finally broke...
How to Write Scene Cards Using Lisa Cron’s Story Genius Method
Lisa Cron’s Story Genius guides writers through the scene card process. Her method differs from traditional outlining, where writers plot every external event that will occur in their story. These scene cards focus on your protagonist's internal evolution. To craft a...
What You Need to Know About Your Protagonist Before Writing Scene Cards (Inspired by Lisa Cron’s Story Genius)
Story Genius by Lisa Cron guides you through developing a character-driven story with scene cards focused on your protagonist’s internal conflict. It takes everything we’ve learned about writing, reminds us what doesn’t work and emphasizes that readers stick around...
6 World Building Mistakes Writers Should Avoid
Poor worldbuilding can weaken your plot. It affects readers’ ability to immerse themselves in your story and character development. While character growth should not hinge upon external events alone, the world that they live in will naturally influence their journey...
How to Shift Your Mindset: 6 Blog Posts for Writers Struggling with Self-Doubt
A writer’s mindset can be easily derailed by unsupportive comments, imposter syndrome and striking out with queries. It's difficult to ignore the continuous loop of your inner critic shouting, “You’re not good enough!” Our subconscious thinks it’s helping, keeping us...
Understand the Writer’s Journey: 4 Lessons from Thunder and Lightning
Natalie Goldberg’s Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft is a meditative look at the writer’s journey. Do not come to this book expecting a series of concrete strategies and resources for writing well. You will need to look beyond the surface. Read...
How to Write Authentic Platonic Relationships in Fiction
Platonic relationships are just as crucial to our stories as romantic relationships or tension between protagonists and antagonists. They can provide points of conflict and growth for our main character, give them a realistic support system, or mirror their journey....
How to Maintain a Consistent Writing Habit
Maintaining a consistent writing habit is no easy feat. It can seem impossible to fit writing into our days between work, life and the unexpected. To be clear, writing does not need to be a daily habit. Consistency can occur on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. It...
Worldbuilding for Writers: How to Create a Believable Setting
Worldbuilding provides a backdrop for your characters to play in and the rules by which your world and all of its characters are held. This world can be a source of conflict. Your world enhances the story’s believability as readers immerse themselves in the external...
6 Self Care Strategies to Reignite Your Creative Energy
Are you experiencing the winter blues? Or a lack of inspiration during these frigid, long days? This blog post provides 6 self-care tips to help you avoid burnout and sustain your inspiration. Self-care isn’t just about lighting candles and taking a bath… Writers...
