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Why Readers Love Flawed Characters
Today I’ve got a post that I probably started a few times over. I struggled with it, because I’m having a hard time writing anything and I’m having a hard time shaking off the doubt monster but today I’m back with a post about why readers love flawed characters, but to get there first I needed to talk about a few things involving writing. So hopefully you enjoy it. Writing is an immensely personal thing, everyone who is a writer understands that, but the writers without a thick skin tend to get left behind. They tend to take any sort of feedback and get defensive and take it as an attack…
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Ideas Series – How to Keep Them For Writing
Ideas are finicky things. They’re changing, they’re impulsive and almost always stumbling around in our minds. They’re very much like a toddler who can’t communicate what they want properly and have to result in baby mumble, cries and finger pointing and it’s out job to try and extract exactly what they’re trying to say to us. Ideas like to hide in plain sight, they’re sneaky, wanton and persistent. A lot of the time you can’t catch them, you let them pass, but this is how you lose great ideas that could have been. Ideas for writing are just as hard. So to get the most out of an idea invest…
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Idea series – How to use an idea
How do we use Ideas? I’ve always been mystified as to how people actually use their ideas. Some people jot them down and let them rot away and others put it into motion. I personally love putting them into motion, if I didn’t I wouldn’t be here today and I wouldn’t have book I love to rewrite. Life would be pretty dull if I didn’t push further. So this is where I call you to action. You have an idea. Flesh it out. Get out a pad and some paper (because this works best if you can scribble in the margins) and nut out what this idea is all about.…