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Capturing Curiosity: What Every Writer Needs to Know

September 9, 2018 Tamar Sloan

Long before I was a writer, I was a psychologist. The study of the whys of what we do drew me like the smell of

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Developing a Character with a History of Sexual Assault

April 15, 2018 Tamar Sloan

There’s many things I love about the landscape of writing, but one of the most wonderful discoveries is the breadth of knowledge out there waiting

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Establishing a Daily Writing Routine

March 11, 2018 Tamar Sloan

We have another wonderful guest post today from Sierra Delarosa, exploring the 20 daily writing routines of famous authors. I discuss making writing a habit

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One Powerful Perspective that Will Keep You Writing

March 4, 2018 Tamar Sloan

I originally wrote this post a couple of years ago for a different blog I had started. It was called Blue Mood, and it was

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Is your character pretending to be something they’re not?

July 30, 2017 Tamar Sloan

We all spend some time pretending to be something we’re not. We pretend we’re feeling happy when we’re not, we maintain a façade of polite

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Therapy for Writers: The Origin of Your Inner Editor

July 2, 2017 Tamar Sloan

I have an inner editor. She keeps up an inner monologue in my head when I’m writing – usually the whole time. When I’m thinking

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Understanding Adultery for Writers

May 14, 2017 Tamar Sloan

Faithfulness in a relationship is a moral (and legal) expectation in many cultures, largely because it maintains trust and fidelity (and reduces the incidence of

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Psychology for Writers: Depression

May 7, 2017 Tamar Sloan

We’ve all felt sad, lost, or hopeless at some stage in our life. It’s a natural part of the 10,000 highs and 10,000 lows Buddha

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Your Book Needs These 6 Psychological Ingredients

April 30, 2017 Tamar Sloan

Psychology has given us such a wonderful understanding into human behaviour that’s it’s a veritable gold-mine for writers. It not only lets us understand our

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Is Your Character Ready to Change? The Stages of Change for Writers

April 23, 2017 Tamar Sloan

  Narratives are all about change – protagonists changing their perspectives as they see, hear and learn new things, choosing to do things differently as

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Straight From An Agent: YOUR Questions Answered

April 15, 2017 Tamar Sloan

Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media is back, this time answering YOUR questions. There were quite a few responses (thank you!) so I didn’t manage to

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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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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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The Character Arc: Leading Your Protagonist from Denial to Action

November 20, 2016 Tamar Sloan

Our characters have a problem, a problem that will spark our plot and drive their arc. As a reader, it’s the transformation from refusal and

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