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    • Write Better, Right Now: Descriptive Writing in Dialogue
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    • Write Better, Right Now: Inner Character Voice
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    • Write Better, Right Now: Finding Our Characters’ Voices
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    • Write Better, Right Now: Interior World of Characters
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    • The Ultimate Guide to Character Creation
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    • Write Better, Right Now: Themes and Thematic Statements
    • Write Better, Right Now: Finding Your Story’s Thematic Statement
    • Write Better, Right Now: Enhancing Your Themes and Thematic Statement
    • Workshops for Writers: Using Themes and Thematic Statements
    • Write Better, Right Now: Types of Conflict
    • Write Better, Right Now: External Conflict
    • Write Better, Right Now: Using Macro Tension in Your Stories
    • Write Better, Right Now: Using Microtension in Your Writing
    • Write Better, Right Now: Building Tension in a Story
    • Write Better, Right Now: The Difference Between Tension and Anticipation
    • What You Need to Know About Writing Scenes
    • Ultimate Writing Resource
    • Write Better, Right Now: Original Metaphors and Similes
    • Write Better, Right Now: Replacing Sense Words
    • What is a Scene?
    • Write Better, Right Now: Evoking Reader Emotions
    • Beginners Guide to Scenes
    • 5 Books That Will Make You a Better Writer
    • The Cadence of Writing
    • Beginners’ Guide to Poetry and Fiction Forms and Genres
    • Understanding Plots and Subplots in Novels
  • Descriptive Writing
    • Write Better, Right Now: Descriptive Action
    • Write Better, Right Now: Descriptive Writing to World Build
    • Write Better, Right Now: Descriptive Writing in Dialogue
    • Write Better, Right Now: What is Descriptive Writing?
    • Write Better, Right Now: Physically Describing Our Characters
    • Write Better, Right Now: Character Action
    • Write Better, Right Now: Describing Body Language
    • Write Better, Right Now: Replacing Sense Words
  • Career Development for Writers
    • Workshops for Writers: Creative Intent
    • Workshops for Writers: Career Planning for Writers
    • Write Better, Right Now: Finding Your Story’s Thematic Statement
    • 5 Signs You’re in the Wrong Writing Group
  • Revising Your Work
    • Workshops for Writers: Writing Endings
    • Workshops for Writers — Endings
    • Write Better, Right Now: Replacing Sense Words
    • 5 Books That Will Make You a Better Writer
    • How to Developmentally Edit Your Work
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    Category: Selling Your Writing

    Write Better, Right Now: External Conflict

    External conflict is everything that happens outside of the character or to the character. Writers use external conflict to place obstacles in the characters’ paths, but they also use external conflict to color the story, quicken or slow the pace, and add diversity to the narrative structure.

    October 10, 2022November 4, 2022 by Aigner Loren Wilson

    Workshops for Writers: Character Voice in Dialogue

    Character voice is a hard topic to master and practice. A lot of it comes down to a couple of things. One being most writers can’t seem to tell if their characters sound different. And the other is how writers see dialogue.

    August 30, 2022 by Aigner Loren Wilson

    Write Better, Right Now: Types of Conflict

    Conflict can be anything that stands in the way of what a character wants. So, you can imagine there is a variety of types of conflict. Each type has a purpose and works best in certain situations in your story.

    August 17, 2022September 21, 2022 by Aigner Loren Wilson

    Write Better, Right Now: Using Macro Tension in Your Stories

    Writers use macro tension to keep the large-scale elements of their story driving conflict and suspense. But you can also use it for things outside inducing conflict. Macro tension can also be a way for you to tease the reader about aspects of your world and to develop character relationships.

    July 28, 2022September 21, 2022 by Aigner Loren Wilson

    Write Better, Right Now: Inner Character Voice

    Nondialogue voice or your character’s inner voice is usually done in a way that aligns with how the character speaks with the rest of the characters in the story. But sometimes an author wants to show that a character has extra depth or perhaps isn’t who they appear to be to the reader or other characters in the story.

    March 28, 2022September 21, 2022 by Aigner Loren Wilson

    Publish Your Stories … And Get Paid for It

    Examples of pitches and open calls for writers and stories. Go get that money!

    January 6, 2022January 5, 2022 by Aigner Loren Wilson

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