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Month: October 2017

Unhelpful thinking styles: which one does your character use?

October 29, 2017 Tamar Sloan

We’ve talked about character wounds, those painful past events that change who your character is, and how central they are to a character arc. Essentially,

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Yielding to the Majority: Will Your Character Conform?

October 22, 2017 Tamar Sloan

Humans are social creatures, and you don’t need to be a psychologist to know that. Whenever something excitingly wonderful or life-changingly awful happens we want

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Schizophrenia for Writers

October 15, 2017 Tamar Sloan

The manuscript that I’m currently working on has a character with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. This character is the father of my protagonist, and seeing

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Emotions in the Body: The Science of your Character

October 8, 2017 Tamar Sloan

We all know that ‘show, don’t tell’ is best practice as a general rule (just like any writing ‘rule’, there are always exceptions), but it’s

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Book Review: Story Genius by Lisa Cron

October 1, 2017 Tamar Sloan

I’m currently writing my first book for PsychWriter, Grit for Writers. It focuses on the on the passion and perseverance we need to succeed in

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