Writer’s Block: Dialogue

Formatting Rules Every time someone new speaks you start a new paragraph – even when a character only says one word! These new paragraphs are

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Writer’s Block: Environment, the Silent Character

Creating complex characters that vivid helps to keep readers engaged. We all know this is true and important when writing. Few seem to realize that

Writer’s Block: Story Structure Part 4 – The Virgin’s Promise

The Virgin’s Promise archetype has many phases, as many as the Hero’s Journey we just finished reviewing. Like the Hero’s Journey, the protagonist can be

Writers Block: Point of View

In a story someone is always between us and the events unfolding – a viewer, a speaker, or both. Stories are always mediated. One of