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Florida Man and the Queen of Kittens
Florida Man and the Queen of Kittens
Stories are about people having emotions. Writers who write from their heads (outlining like crazy, etc,) are often missing out on the emotion because they are analyzing how to show emotion.
But it’s desire and yearning that makes stories stand out and makes writers into artists and truth tellers.
Robert Olen Butler says that yearning creates a dynamic of desire and that dynamic of…
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Am I the Butt Face? How to Make (and be) a Likeable Character
Am I the Butt Face? How to Make (and be) a Likeable Character
Why Do People Suck So Much?
One of the biggest things you hear in the world of writing is to make your character likeable, which is great and all but gives you two questions:
How. How do you make your characters likable?
How do you make your characters likable when in real life people suck so much? There’s an entire Reddit thread called “Am I the A-Hole?”
We talk about the second question…
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