Literary Elements

Supplying Breadcrumbs: How to Hint at a Character’s Emotional Wound – Angela Ackerman

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By Angela Ackerman Emotional wounds are transformative and have the power to re-shape a character in many negative ways, impacting their happiness, their self-worth, and causing mistrust and disillusionment to skew their worldview. This critical piece of backstory is key to understanding their motivations, and will impact their individual character’s arc, so knowing what it is, and […]

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Three Awesome Plot Structures for Building Bestsellers

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Novels are just like houses. Houses have rooms and residents. Novels have chapters and characters. Houses have curb appeal. Novels have pretty covers. Houses and novels both take a while to build, and the end results for both aren’t worth much if they weren’t built on a solid foundation. And when it comes to novels,

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