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When Your Characters Form a Group: What Writers Need to Know

June 4, 2017 Tamar Sloan

When Frodo agreed to take that cursed ring to Mount Doom, he didn’t know he was going to join a group of fellow fantastical and

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Autism Spectrum Disorder for Writers

February 13, 2017 Tamar Sloan

If you’ve got a character who has autism then you’ve just set yourself a challenge, but a challenge that has some of the greatest flexibility

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3 Top Personality Tests to Nail Your Character

February 5, 2017 Tamar Sloan

We all want characters that are complex, relatable and realistic. It’s a tall order but definitely achievable, although it does take a little time and

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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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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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Got a character that struggles to trust? Here’s why.

December 11, 2016 Tamar Sloan

Being the social creatures we are, relationships are the pivot points of our lives, and not surprisingly, those of our characters. A good book will

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for Writers

December 4, 2016 Tamar Sloan

The moment Katniss Everdeen volunteers herself as tribute in place of her younger sister, the heroine of the Hunger Games begins a journey of war

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