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Promise and Payoff: A beginner's guide to foreshadowing plotting writing Jul 18, 2025

Last week, I went to see the new Superman movie twice in 48 hours. 

It's not unusual for me to hyper-fixate on something I really like - when I was a kid, I watched How to Train Your Dragon every day...

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Writing a Negative Character Arc (and why you should consider it) characters plotting Jun 27, 2025

Last week we talked all about villains that scare us silly. I gushed about Mindhunter and Darth Vader and all things villainous. (you can read that post here). 

That got me thinking...what about nega...

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The secret plot structure no one talks about plotting Jun 13, 2025

We talk a lot about story structure on this blog. It's an important thing - without it, it's really easy to get lost in the book that you're writing. But there is a secret story structure (okay, not t...

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