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Character Profile Sheets (CPS) – Part 2
Character Profile Sheets are a great literary tool that help you in profiling your characters, especially the main characters of your story. They not only help you in being consistent with your character's traits throughout your story or manuscript but also help a great deal in creating as well as painting the character arc you [...]
The 4-Act-Structure: Introduction
As almost all the plotters would swear by, outlining a story helps a writer greatly in making sense of the story for the readers. We, as writers, know what our story is and how it plays out, the difficult bit is to put in into words in a systematic way and have it make sense [...]
Naming The Writer’s Unconscious – A Little Girl And Her Puppy
I always read craft books not once, but several times. I guess that's the best way to really get the techniques and the wisdom they have to offer. Lately, I've been re-reading Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott and came across a concept, more like a paragraph or two, where author Lamott mentions about naming the unconscious: "My [...]
What Is Writer’s Block? And 3 Things to Keep In Mind
There are a lot of people who don't believe in the existence of Writer's Block, but let's face it, even though you don't want to name it, there are periods of time in every writer's life when you simply can't write (no matter how much you want to!) You can call it a "bad phase", [...]
Point Of Views (POVs)
Point Of View, casually known as POV, is one of the most important literary devices that is used in fiction writing. Determining the perspective from which the story is told is often the making or the breaking point of a novel. If you make a wrong decision, your readers will be highly disappointed due to [...]
All About First Drafts
A First Draft is one of the most basic entities of fiction-writing and it lays the basic foundation of a novel. If you're a writer then you probably might have come across this term more than a thousand times already, and if not then you've come to the right place. Just for the sake of [...]
Editing Vs Revising
We all are aware of what revising a draft means and what it means to get your manuscript edited, but very few writers really know the real difference between the two. If you'll ask around, the most common answer is that what we do ourselves is revising and what an editor does is editing. But [...]
The 3-Act Structure: In Detail
In order to utilize the 3-Act Structure efficiently, there is a need for a systematic sequence of elements to be followed that carries the story forward. In the 3-Act Structure, each act has some particular story moves and by following these particular set of acts, you can rest easy that there will be no place [...]
The 3-Act Structure: Introduction
“You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley Planning a novel is the most important aspect of creating one. Even if you're a pantster, at some or the other point, you'll realise the need to arrange the novel in an order which will ensure that the novel [...]
