Writing tricks

  • Creating Characters that Illuminate

    We all want to make our characters shine. We want to make them feel real, living and breathing. We want our readers to feel like they can reach through the screen and touch them. What if there is a way to make it happen? Want to try and find out with me?

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  • A Funeral for Whom? Emily Dickinson Poetry analysis.

    Transcendentalism. I mean, it seems self-explanatory. The romantics wrote poetry that translated love, beauty, passion, for the masses. They also interepreted the trenches of heartbreak, so much so that they dictated the way these words are used in modern philosophy. Here’s a few poems that can give you a sense of what I mean.

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  • Transforming Scenes

    Transforming Scenes

    Writing strong, climactic emotional scenes is always a daunting task. It’s all too common for a plot point to be emotionally impactful on paper but fall flat in execution. But I have learned a secret trick to unlock the latent magic in every scene and guarantee that emotional punch you, the author, are looking for.…

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