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/
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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/
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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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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.
About 15 years ago now, I tried my hand at a Yume Nikki fangame, it was called Melodia.
It was… not so good honestly, and used free assets or borrowed assets from LCDDEM. The idea was to make my own, which didn't happen lol
Anyways here's a redraw of the main character I made for it, Analiese.
Hi folks,
Today I'm back with the #symmetry #leitmotif of my #characters Ayden and Ari.
While I figure out a #story for Ayden and the nature of the #relationship between him and Ari I also work on the next #chapter of my ongoing #webcomic. But more on that in due time…
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