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A Fight Scene Worth Reading
In fiction, as in life, conflict between two characters often leads to fisticuffs. It can be an exciting moment in your story where the tension…
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Presenting Your Characters’ Backstories
I was recently sitting at home with my wife when it occurred to me that if one of my schoolmates (whom I haven’t seen in…
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Preventing Phantom Protagonist Syndrome
Have you ever had a really great idea for a story that somehow seemed to die a little more with each word you tried to…
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6 More Six-Word Stories
If you’ve been following Penstricken since it started in 2015, you may recall that on one occasion I set myself the challenge of writing 6…
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