KAITLIN HILLERICH Sometimes, you don’t want your readers (or your characters!) to know who the bad guys are in your story. And if you think about it, it makes sense for villains to camouflage themselves. Villains are deceitful, cunning, and manipulative. They don’t always go around announcing they’re the bad guy! Sometimes, they need to […]
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You want to nudge the world, right? You’re in marketing to do just that. In fact, you probably want to do more than just nudge the world. You want to tantalize. You want to motivate. You want to accelerate. Fantastic! But for now you probably would just be thrilled if an extra person opens your
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You know in scary movies when a character does something so irredeemably stupid that you know it will lead to their death? I’m talking about when, in a zombie-post-apocalyptic world, they run screaming into a house and lock the door behind them. They don’t check and make sure that there aren’t any others in there
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By Beth Hill As readers, we know that either plot or characters can be the driving force behind great stories. As writers, we sometimes forget that we need either plot or characters to be the driving force behind our stories. I’ve read a handful of manuscripts over the last months where either plot or character have been seemingly
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