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Finding the art in ideas.
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Mackenzie Carpenter
Sep 5, 2022
How to create conflict using your characters’ core values
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Mackenzie Carpenter
Jul 9, 2022
How to make sure your characters stay in character
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Mackenzie Carpenter
May 20, 2022
I challenge you to write the worst thing you possibly can
Go put some awful prose on the page and…
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Mackenzie Carpenter
Mar 11, 2022
What are core values, and how do you pick them for your characters?
Cores aren’t only for apples.
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Mackenzie Carpenter
Jan 7, 2022
‘Where do you find your ideas?’
And what do you do once you have them?
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Mackenzie Carpenter
Aug 14, 2021
Writing more isn’t going to help you improve
Here’s what you need to do to get better.
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Mackenzie Carpenter
Jan 18, 2021
Clauses, conjunctives, and conditions: a fiction author’s guide to commas
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