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Monday Motivation

Ideas are cheap. It’s the execution that is all important.
A Protagonist’s Anatomy #4: Surface Details

Surface details are absolutely vital if you want to give your protagonist that perfect finish but…
Spotlight: A Threat from the Past by Paul Cude

Can you be heroic and naive? For one young man, the answer is yes, despite his…
Monday Motivation

As for “Write what you know,” I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think…
A Protagonist’s Anatomy #3: Character Traits

It’s time for part 3 in this little series of posts collectively entitled A Protagonist’s Anatomy.…
Spotlight: Anachronist by Andrew Hastie

One step away from prison, 17-year-old Joshua Jones steals a WW2 medal from the house of…
Monday Motivation

Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed…
A Protagonist’s Anatomy #2: Backstory

Put simply, a backstory is everything that happened to your protagonist before the events of your…
Throwback Thursday: How to Kill Someone (in Fiction) and Get Away With It

The death of a main character can easily be one of the main turning points in…
Spotlight: Haze by Rebecca Crunden

When Eliza Owens gets a phone call in the middle of the night from a girl…