Step 1: Understand your POV character's personalityStep 2: Create character voice cheat sheetsStep 3: Make your characters' voices uniqueStep 4: Listen to people who sound like your characterStep 5: Listen to music that embodies the character's vibe
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
How to Write Character Voice *EFFORTLESSLY* and Stop Sounding Like YOU
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Characters,
Writing
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5 Deadly Mistakes Writers Make in the CLIMAX of Their Book
- Ah-ha moment
- Cliff-hangers
- Over-long ending
- Deus ex machina
- Loose ends
Thursday, 20 February 2025
6 Psychological Triggers That Make Books Bestsellers (Six of Crows Break...
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- Social status
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Tuesday, 18 February 2025
How To Write Freakishly Good Fantasy Sentences
- Active voice connects readers to action
- Cut filtering words to deepen immersion
- Vary sentence length for emotional impact
- Keep characters in control of their bodies
- Replace "was -ing" with immediate action
- Use strategic vocabulary
- Anchor actions in emotion
- Thread sentences together
- Building your sensory scaffold
- Balance mundane and magical
- Create rhythmic prose
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Writing
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