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Emotion

Using a Character’s Personality Traits to Generate Conflict

How to Use Show, Don’t Tell to Strengthen Your Story

How to Show Emotional Volatility

How to Use Amplifiers to Motivate Emotionally Challenging Characters

How to Avoid Flat Characters in Your Story

Character Secret Thesaurus Entry: Monitoring Someone Without Their Knowledge

Character Thesaurus Entry: Using a False Identity

Reader Empathy Begins with Compelling Character Emotion

What’s Your Character Hiding?

Five Vehicles for Adding Subtext to Dialogue

Need to Get a Stubborn Character Moving? Use an Amplifier

Three Emotion Problems to Avoid in Your Story Opening

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