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Using Setting to Illuminate and Enhance Your Characters

A location tells a lot about the person or people who inhabit it. An organized office, a scattered room, a neatly arranged work desk, a mansion in Malibu or a studio apartment in Queens tell us a person is organized, scattered, rich, or struggling. This...

Achieving Your 2022 Writing Goals

The new year is upon us and you've probably already started writing down your goals of things you want to accomplish in 2022. But there's a little nagging voice in the back of your mind, "How are you going to achieve these goals?" I'm going...

How To Choose the Right Setting for Your Romance Novel

You must have a romance narrative that takes place somewhere. Your hero and heroine are crucial, but they don’t exist in a void. The setting gives their story context. Readers need to know where things are happening, just as a matter of curiosity. But more importantly,...

4 Defining Qualities that Make Writers Soar

People often glorify the writing life. But few people realize that writing is challenging and often frustrating. And inspiration, the muse, or whatever you call it, is often overrated. Although reading a lot is touted as essential by most writers, what other characteristics do successful...

How To Make the Ending of Your Romance Narrative Remarkable

Your romance needs to meet readers' ultimate expectations, the hero and heroine living happily ever after. This is why they decided to read your romance, an opportunity to see love prevail against all odds. And you have to give it to them in a believable and...

How To Maximize Emotional Conflict in Romance Narratives

It is essential to have the right idea and craft characters with emotional baggage that afford compelling conflict. But more importantly, you need to use that conflict to propel your story. To move your narrative forward, you need to work with your story idea and...

Creative Mindfulness: Doodle Inspiration

This exercise takes a look at art-based methodology with a focused activity that brings art to the emotional mind too and can be very useful for unlocking creative thoughts and allowing your ideas a little freedom. The Theory Do you remember those times in school where you...

Creative Mindfulness: Music Motivation

Many of us turn to music when we need an emotional boost. Whether it’s songs about a painful break-up, or a party mix to get us in the mood for going out, or even a slow, calming rhythm to fall asleep to, music has the...

Imagery

There’s always one book that comes into your mind every time you try to think about all the good books you’ve read. Chances are very high that you remember every detail about the story, whether it was fiction or nonfiction. Now, what makes that book...

Allusion

One of the good things about the English language is the fact that it is very equipped. As a writer, you have a variety of tools and devices at your exposal to help you manipulate your ideas and come up with great content. I know...