#34: How to Write Backstory Without Boring Your Reader
How much backstory is too much? Backstory is one of the trickiest things to get effectively onto the page. Too much of it and your reader loses track, forgets, or even stops caring about what’s happ...
3 Helmi 202116min
#33: Three Ways to Avoid Melodrama
There's a delicate balance between bringing a scene to the dramatic brim, and spilling over the top into melodrama. On today's episode of Writer Unleashed, I'll share 3 techniques for avoiding melodr...
27 Tammi 202114min
#32: Five Ways to Avoid the Stock Villain
How do you avoid writing the stock villain? How do you move beyond the cliche to create a bad guy that surprises us? That goes against the status quo? On today’s episode of Writer Unleashed, we’ll e...
20 Tammi 202112min
#31: What Most Writers Get Wrong About Point of View
Of all the things I see tripping writers up, point of view is the most common and persistent. It's one of the most misunderstood elements of writing. It's also one of the most essential things to ge...
13 Tammi 202115min
#30: How to Stop Dreaming and Write for Real in 2021
97% of writers never finish their book. And out of that 3% who do finish their books, only 1 to 2 percent of them ever publish. On today’s episode of Writer Unleashed, we'll break down some of the m...
6 Tammi 202120min
#29: How to Re-Ignite Your Motivation to Write
Some days you're on fire. Other days, you feel like a dried up spec of dust. With no soul. You’ve lost motivation and may even have stopped writing altogether. So how do you get your mojo back so yo...
30 Joulu 202022min
#28: You Already Know How to Write Atmosphere
How do we create atmosphere in story in a way that evokes mood, and simultaneously reveals the inner life of your character? Well, you already know how to do this. On today’s episode of Writer Unl...
23 Joulu 202016min
#27: Writer Rejected: How to Bounce Back Fast
You’ve spent months, maybe years writing your story. So you finally get the courage to send it out into the world - to an agent, a literary magazine, a publisher, or your writer’s group. And then you...
16 Joulu 202013min
