You may have heard about the five stages of grief in everyday conversation, but what does it actually mean? And how can it help you create grief that feels real and moves readers? In this article, you’ll learn how the five stages of grief help you add emotional realism to stories. Discover how to plan …
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Obsessed with Enneagrams? Building Enneagram character profiles for your novel will level up the realism and creativity of your next great story.
AI for writing has a high barrier to entry for many people. It might come easy to you, of course, and that’s awesome. But for many, it’s hard to learn yet another skill or yet another software tool to get your job done. If AI is the way of the future and it’s going to …
People contain multitudes. They are messy, complicated, and often unpredictable. When creating characters, you need to show why they act the way they do (and find their inner contradictions). Enter Myers-Briggs for fiction. It’s a psychology-based tool that will help you define characters’ personalities, so that you can create believable character arcs. Keep reading to …
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Birth order theory suggests that being a younger vs older sibling may have a profound effect on our psychology. Formative experiences affect people into adulthood, in real life and in fiction. Thinking about whether your characters were an eldest, middle or youngest child will help you think how their family dynamics affected them. Plus, there’s …
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