One mistake many writers make when developing their character arcs is relating the change to what your character wants - as opposed to what your character needs.
Writing Insight
Intuitively, writers start writing at the beginning of their story. After all, stories have a beginning, a middle and an end. In reality, your story…
November is National Novel Writing Month. This is the time of year where thousands of writers, both accomplished writers as well as the aspiring, to sit down and spend four weeks doing the deed.

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A good novel is read and forgotten but an amazing novel is read and re-read and given high praise on in the Kindle comment section.
Staring at a blank screen or a fresh sheet out of your notebook and wondering what will work. You sip your coffee and check your phone and then you go right back to staring. Sound familiar?
If you're itching to write a story, well there's lot of ways to tackle this and we'll address these in future articles but here's a really simple trick.
Choosing the right word is a task that takes into consideration not only the connotation of the word but additional elements such as how it sounds locally (as in the sentence) as well as taken from the perspective of the entire paragraph.