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WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®

Helping writers become bestselling authors

MARISSA GRAFF - Resident Writing Coach

Five Ways to Get Your Protagonist to Realize They’re the Problem

Backstory Balancing Act

Three Ways You’re Losing Your Reader’s Trust

Three Easy Steps to Generate a Goal Using Fear as Motivation

Write Like a Magician: Creating the Illusion of an Unseen Character

Turn Your Readers into Detectives

Three Ways to Make Readers Care About Secondary Characters

5 Ways to Crash Your Character’s Pity Party

Four Reasons Your Action-Based Scene is Failing (And How to Avoid It)

5 Ways to Approach Your Novel Like a Trial Lawyer

Five Micro-Edits to Hook Readers On Your First Page

3 Tricks to Reel Your Reader in With Flashbacks

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