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Category: Writing
The Emotional Toll of Writing Dark Fiction
I created characters I thought couldn’t exist in America—then watched them appear on the news. How to keep writing when reality feels dystopian.
How to: Writing Dark Fiction When Reality Feels Dystopian
How to write dark dystopian fiction when reality feels like a dystopia. Including examples from writing the final book in The Fellowship Dystopia series.
Writing How-to: Create Characters Your Readers Love and Hate
Want to know why readers put down your books? Lynette M. Burrows discusses six common character problems that make readers put books down and how to fix them.
Create Compelling Scenes with the MRU
Learn about the motivation-reaction unit, (MRU), a tool from Dwight V. Swain’s Techniques of a Selling Writer, that can make your characters more realistic.