Helping Writers Become Authors

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Helping Writers Become Authors provides writers help in summoning inspiration, crafting solid characters, outlining and structuring novels, and polishing prose. Learn how to write a book and edit it into a story agents will buy and readers will love. (Music intro by Kevin MacLeod.)


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Ep. 579: 9 Ways to Approach Relationship Dynamics in Fiction

Creating an amazing supporting cast that can offer important relationship dynamics in fiction will also help develop your protagonist.

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Episode #578: Archetypes and Story Structure: How They’re Connected

Learn how archetypes and story structure mirror each other in any individual book and can be used to further strengthen your story.

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Ep. 577: Making Story Structure Your Own

Here are a five important questions you, as a writer of fiction, can ask yourself to help you in making story structure your own.

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Ep. 576: Conflict in Fiction: What It Really Is and Why It’s Important to Plot

There’s nothing incorrect in using confrontation to create conflict in fiction. But to understand conflict as only confrontation is too narrow a definition.

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Ep. #575: The Writer’s Inner Critic: 10 Ways to Tell if Yours Is Healthy

Learn how to increase the health and effectiveness of the writer’s inner critic while diminishing toxic effects.

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Ep. 574: A Writer’s New Year Reflections: The 6 Gifts I Gave Myself in 2021

Here are this writer’s New Year reflections, focusing on six “gifts” I gave myself and why I believe they were profoundly life-changing.

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Ep. 573: The Two Halves of the Climactic Moment

The two halves of the Climactic Moment require the story’s final sequence to offer two very specific beats: Sacrifice and Victory/Failure.

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Ep. 572: The Two Halves of the Third Plot Point

The two halves of the Third Plot Point work together to create a scene arc that moves from the False Victory to the Low Moment.

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Ep. 571: The Two Halves of the Midpoint

The halves of the Midpoint are unique in story structure in that they mark the dividing line between the two halves of the entire story arc.

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