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Need to motivate your villain? Here are 39 motivations that can be used in any genre story or novel. | Fiction Note by Darcy Pattison

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With the following tips in mind, reread your manuscript with an eye toward making your antagonist as compelling as your protagonist.

Daily Writing Prompt: "Write Your Own Top 10 Rules for Writing Fiction."

Has this happened to you? I was all set to jump into my NaNoWriMo story scene. Sure, I was nervous as usual. But I had my outline. I knew where the story was going. No problem, right? Ugh. Except when I fired up Evernote and put my fingers to keyboard, everything slipped away. My blank screen […]

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Taking the time to write a novel outline helps you to work smarter and faster. Learn how to structure your story with an outline the easy way.

Tips on how to create characters for your novel that are believable, memorable, functional, and 3-dimensional.

Novels should begin with character and world building. You need to introduce the reader and let them explore your world a little before you can introduce the conflict of the main plot.