It’s easy to write a check to an organization and feel good about yourself, but to further help survivors, we must work with them. Visit your local women's shelter, homeless assistance nonprofit, or domestic violence survivors group and ask how you can help trafficking survivors. When you ...
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From amarketingperspective, remember that many book buyers in the YA category are parents, grandparents or other older friends to teenagers (such as family friends) looking for something suitable. Nerine Dorman raised this in our webinar on how to write YA. So think about his audience - people...
While that's obviously not how real-world rape works, the fantasy gives women -- often socially conditioned to repress sexual urges -- the freedom to explore what they like without the shame of being a "slut." Not to mention that when you write your own fanfiction, "You might write ...
Have you always wanted to write a dystopian novel but need help fine-tuning your idea? Got an idea for a dystopian novel, but have no idea where to start with the actual writing of your book? In this eight-week course dystopian novelist Madeline Dyer wil
You’re trying to stand out, so beware of overused tropes like the following:Mental illness: It takes enormous strength to heal from and learn to manage a mental illness. Still, they may be tricky to write about. Read our article for more information on covering mental illness and ...
But in order to write a good adventure story, we must dive a little deeper. Let's take a look at some commonalities in most adventure stories. Adventure Story Tropes The followingtropesshow up again and again in all great adventure stories. However, not all of them show up in every story...
2. Write your idea as a premise 3. Set a deadline 4. Set smaller deadlines building to the final deadline 5. Create a consequence 6. Strive for “good enough” and embrace imperfection 7. Figure out what kind of story you’re trying to tell ...
Scenes are made up of a series ofTROPES. The microstrategies in tropes are used by theAVATARSto navigate the problems presented in each scene. TheFIVE COMMANDMENTS OF STORYTELLINGare dramatized through the trope microstrategies. The inciting incident of a scene catalyzes change with an unexpected ...