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9 Tips for Creating Your Antagonist

9 Tips for Creating Your Antagonist Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0Chapter 5 “Characters” – Section 3 “Antagonists” (Previous Tutorial) (Next Tutorial) “You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.” -John Rogers Whether the obstacle that stands in the way of your protagonist is an evil person, a person of just another philosophical belief, a person with a contradicting goal, a force of nature, a force of the supernatural, a monster, an emotion, an exper

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Jun 24, 2011

In November 2010, we posted a poll about it and discussed the idea with a lot of you, and at the start of the new year, we started posting writing prompts to inspire your writing ventures. What is a prompt? Some sort of theme or topic, a sentence or perhaps even a song or movie clip that would be designed to spark your creativity to write something about it. As of now, we're posting a prompt bi-weekly, but we're open to changing scheduling based on your feedback. Each new prompt will be submitted individually, while this blog will remain as an archive of previous prompts. Feel free to come back and be inspired by prompts that you may have mi

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9 Tips for Creating Your Antagonist by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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9 Tips for Creating Your Antagonist

10 Tips for Creating a Protagonist by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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10 Tips for Creating a Protagonist

10 Tips for Creating a Protagonist Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 5 “Characters” – Section 2 “Protagonists” (Previous Tutorial) (Next Tutorial) “Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion—that’s Plot.” —Leigh Brackett Apart from Primary and Secondary Protagonists, there are many other different protagonist characters-types that can drive a story—ranging from heroes, to villains, to antiheroes

9 Character Types to Use in Your Novel by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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9 Character Types to Use in Your Novel

9 Character Types to Use in Your Novel Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 5 “Designing Characters” – Section 1 “Characters Types” (Previous Tutorial) (Next Tutorial) "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality” -Walt Disney Now that we've begun the process of giving depth, goals, and personality to our characters, we need to begin our look at what part they play in your central plot. Below, I've compiled a list of different character types to consider when p

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5 Steps for Creating a Plot Premise

5 Steps for Creating a Plot Premise Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 4 “Creating a Plot” – Section 2 “Plot Premise” (Previous Tutorial) (Next Tutorial) "Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him." -Mel Brooks Ask a beginning writer what their story is about, and you'll likely be rewarded with a long and tedious monologue about their world, characters, and story ideas—told in such a way that reveals

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How to Create an Outline for Your Novel

How to Create an Outline for Your Novel Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 4 “Preparing Your Plot” – Section 1 “The Outline” (Previous Tutorial) (Next Tutorial) “Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.” -Caroline Lawrence Of all of the topics to discuss in writing a novel, none of them inspire quite so much ire as that of outlining your story. As artists, we sometimes want to believe in the concept of absolute freedom from form and conve

6 Tips for Mapping a Fictional World by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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6 Tips for Mapping a Fictional World

6 Tips for Mapping a Fictional World Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 3 “World Building” – Section 2 “Maps” (Previous Tutorial) (Next Tutorial) “I wisely started with a map, and made the story fit (generally with meticulous care for distances). The other way about lands one in confusions and impossibilities, and in any case it is weary work to compose a map from a story.” - J.R.R. Tolkien If you've ever read or written a story that seemed unintentionally ethereal—where the descriptions did not paint a vivid picture of the setting but instead a more vague dreamscape that t

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Anybody Can Write a Novel - Introduction

Introduction to the New Tutorial Anybody Can Write a Novel Version 2.0 Chapter 1 “Beginning to Write” – Section 1 “Introduction” (Next Tutorial) “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”―Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Within the many styles of martial arts, there are powerful moves unique to each—whether it be footwork, punching, blocking, kicking, or the countless weapon styles among them. Yet none is objectively perfect, nor does any reach

6 Reading Tips for Improving Your Writing by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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6 Reading Tips for Improving Your Writing

6 Reading Tips for Improving Your Writing Anybody Can Write a Novel Version 2.0 Chapter 1 “Beginning to Write” – Section 2 “Constructive Reading” (Previous Tutorial) (Next Tutorial) “That's when I started being a writer. I got the Tarzan books and studied how Edgar Rice Burroughs kept the pace going, because he was really good at that. And I studied Stephen King. Although Burroughs wasn't that great on character, he was great on pace and adventure, and King is very good on character as well as pace. I read the same book over three times to see how it was put together. That's how I trained

5 Tips For Choosing What Type of Story to Write by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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5 Tips For Choosing What Type of Story to Write

5 Tips For Choosing what Type of Story to Write Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 2 World-building – Section 1 "Story Types" (Previous Tutorial) (Next Tutorial) “The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration.” -Thomas Edison When crafting a novel, the first thing you need to know is what type of story you are telling. Most writers begin with ideas on the general themes and events that will take place; but eventually you will want to refine this general idea into s

6 Tips for Creating Your Story's Timeline by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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6 Tips for Creating Your Story's Timeline

6 Tips for Creating Your Story's Timeline Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 3 “World Building” – Section 1 “History” (Previous Tutorial) (Next Tutorial) “Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, which belongs to it in appropriate events.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay I, History From the events which take place in your novel, to the culture of the people groups present, to the attitudes present in the characters, to the nature of the cosmo

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