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Month: January 2017

4 Ways Your Character Will Handle a Stressful Situation

January 30, 2017 Tamar Sloan

I wrote recently on my Writers Helping Writers guest post fear is hardwired into our brain. Deep, deep in the primal part that we don’t

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5 Ways Your Character Will Handle Loss

January 22, 2017 Tamar Sloan

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars Loss is a part of life, and if it’s a

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When Your Character Experiences a Loss: The Stages of Grief

January 21, 2017 Tamar Sloan

Grief and loss hit us when we lose anything that is important to us. Your character may have lost their husband, parent or child, but

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The Malleability of Memory: What writers can learn from The Girl on the Train

January 15, 2017 Tamar Sloan

Spoiler Alert: One of the reasons The Girl on the Train is amazing is because of the plot twists on plot twists on wow-I-did-not-see-that-coming that

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6 FREE Inspirational Posters for Writers

January 8, 2017 Tamar Sloan

As we stare down the barrel of 2017 and with a book set to be published in April I’m reflecting on all the wisdom that

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