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February 2014
- Creating Stunning Character Arcs, Pt. 3: The Thing Your Character Wants vs. The Thing Your Character Needs: The Lie Your Character Believes, which is the reason for all character arcs, is created from the conflict between the Thing He Wants and the Thing He needs.
- Creating Stunning Character Arcs, Pt. 2: The Lie Your Character Believes: Your character needs to be harboring some deeply held misconception about either himself, the world, or both.
- Creating Stunning Character Arcs, Pt. 1: Can You Structure Characters?: What if there were a sure-fire secret to creating stunning character arcs?
- Most Common Writing Mistakes: Stories That Begin Too Early: Stories that begin too early suffer from their own set of problems, including tedium, verbosity, and info dumps.
