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Basic Human Needs

Use Conflict to Target a Character’s Soft Spots

Want Readers to Connect to Your Character? Include this Element.

What’s Your Story’s Focus? Plot vs. Character Arcs

Does Your Story Need More Conflict? Tap this Powerful Source

Testing Fate: A Closer Look at Person vs. Fate Conflict

Balancing Your Cast of Characters

What Is Your Character’s Emotional Shielding and Why Does It Matter?

The Author’s Guide to Redeeming Villains

10 Steps To Revise Your Nano Novel

Stuck in No-Man’s-Land: Your Novel’s Middle

Dropping Breadcrumbs: How to Show a Character’s Emotional Wound Through Behavior

The Occupation Thesaurus: Firefighter

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