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Using a Character’s Personality Traits to Generate Conflict
When it comes to generating conflict, your character’s personality can help ensure sparks fly, especially when their traits clash with someone else’s. When people grate on one another their interactions become filled with misunderstandings, power…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/04/clashing-personalities-to-create-conflict/
#ActionScenes #CharacterArc #CharacterFlaws #CharacterTraits #Characters
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WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® · Using a Character's Personality Traits to Generate ConflictWant characters to clash? Give them personality traits that will cause friction in their relationships, and then watch the sparks fly!
Many thoughts about new story, including making it original #characters vs #FanFiction, but not written much. Felt such emotions for one character, it seems better to keep it a fanfic so they and another can play a more interesting role, and not just be really sad.
Talking about Gabe from #LockeAndKey and #FiveHargreeves of #TheUmbrellaAcademy btw. They’re both suited to a story like this, in a few ways, and very interesting to throw together.
Five Ways to Get Your Protagonist to Realize They’re the Problem
We’ve all heard the writing advice that we need to throw rocks at our protagonists. More obstacles, more tough choices, and more loss test them and force them to grow and change. This is all true and necessary. But one…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/04/five-ways-to-get-your-protagonist-to-realize-theyre-the-problem/
#CharacterFlaws #Characters #ResidentWritingCoach #WritingCraft #WritingLessons
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WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® · Five Ways to Get Your Protagonist to Realize They’re the ProblemIf your character’s story is an everyone else problem, where is the space for your protagonist to exercise agency? To grow and change?
How Writers Can Use the Four Stages of Knowing in Character Arcs
Great character arcs are built on transformation, and one of the most powerful frameworks for understanding this journey is the four stages of knowing in character arcs. These stages map a character’s growth through initiation to enlightenment to…
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/four-stages-of-knowing-in-character-arcs/
#Characters #Podcast #StructuringYourNovel #characterarcs #characters
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Helping Writers Become Authors · How Writers Can Use the Four Stages of Knowing in Character ArcsExplore the four stages of knowing in character arcs to understand transformation and enhance your storytelling skills.
How to Use Show, Don’t Tell to Strengthen Your Story
Writers hear it all the time: Show, don’t tell. In fact, this advice is so iconic I wouldn’t be surprised if a few tattoos of it are kicking around the community. After all, our job as writers isn’t to explain what’s happening to readers, it’s to help them…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/03/how-to-use-show-dont-tell-to-strengthen-your-story/
#Characters #Description #Emotion #EmotionThesaurusGuide #Empathy
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WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® · How to Use Show, Don't Tell to Strengthen Your StoryWriters hear it all the time: Show, don’t tell. In fact, this advice is so iconic I wouldn’t be surprised if a few tattoos of it are kicking around the community. After all, our job as writers isn’t to explain what’s happening to readers, it’s to help them experience the story for themselves. And show, […]
Croquis de recherches pour les personnages des Dabbas (« Le Dabba d’en haut créa le ciel, tout ce qui vole avec des ailes et même aussi le vent. Son frère, le Dabba d’en bas, créa la terre et tout ce qui marche, court, coule de torrent en ruisseau jusqu’à la mer. »)
« Une drôle de Bête » - texte: Martine Laffon - Édition: Les Fourmis Rouges. #recherches #personnages #characters #childrensBooks #sketches #wip #archive #delphinedurand #illustration #workinprogress #croquis #roughs
« Une drôle de Bête » - texte: Martine Laffon - Édition: Les Fourmis Rouges. #recherches #personnages #characters #childrensBooks #sketches #wip #archive #delphinedurand #illustration #workinprogress #croquis #roughs
Brainstorming my characters' hair color (yes, really) yields a fascinating plot thread: alien microbes that make their manes liquid copper.
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2025/03/12/manes-of-metal/
This post's featured image is John William Godward's "A Congenial Task".
In a world of extreme weather, might one of my characters embrace not a sailboat, but rather a submarine as her residence...
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2025/03/09/crash-dive-auntie/
This post's featured image is of the interior of the tourist submarine Atlantis, by Leonard G. of Wikimedia Commons.
Freytag's Pyramid is a five-part structure for storytelling that helps writers create a story's narrative.
1. The "exposition" establishes the main characters.
2. The "rising action" builds tension by introducing new characters and obstacles.
3. The "climax" is the highest point of tension in the story.
4. The "falling action" is where the story releases tension and moves towards a resolution.
5. The "resolution" resolves the problem or conflict.
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The #HD44780 controller can only address 80 #characters, so this specific #display has two of them. I'll just hook up the two EN pins to two different I/O ports of the eight available on the computer. Very inefficient, but very fast. I will use an address pin to decode which controller the computer is talking to in the future.
would you prefer to host your #characters info and arts on #toyhouse or #neocities or #booru or somewhere else (if so say in comments)?
The Character Reference sheet pack can help you develop the perfect character reference sheet... From any angle! Get it now for just $5+ and start sharing with me those sheets you make!
A little guy! Because giving a weasel a giant sword feels very correct in my head.
From lightning strikes to acquired savantism to a revisiting of Anacapa Island, I think my sequel story is at last really cooking...
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2025/02/20/a-bolt-from-the-blue/
This post's featured image is "The Ninth Wave" by Ivan Aivazovsky.
