You may have a great plot and a great protagonist, but without an equally great antagonist, you’re going to be stuck spinning your story’s wheels. That’s no problem. Just stick in a great bad guy! But what happens when even that’s not enough? Sometimes your story is going to require not just one, but multiple antagonists. […]
November 23, 2015 by 58 Comments CharactersHow to Write Multiple Antagonists (What I Learned Writing Storming)
January 22, 2014 by 22 Comments CharactersAre You Repeating Yourself? How to Spot—and Break—Your Personal Writing Clichés
Here’s something to think about. There’s a line from the movie Last Night, in which Keira Knightley’s character, who is a writer, says, You live with your first book all your life…. It comes out on its own. After that, though, it’s different. You can suddenly write anything. That First Book Is Different Here’s the […]
