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Writing Believable Villains with Real Motivations 😈
Want to create a villain that truly stands out? Learn the key motivations that drive iconic villains and how to use them in your storytelling. Save this pin to craft memorable villains in your fiction writing! 📌
Creating Terrifying Monsters for Your Story
Learn the secrets to developing unique and terrifying monsters for your horror story. Save this pin for when you need it!
Fantasy world building checklist worldbuilding reference sheet how to write settings worksheet tips
Creating compelling writing tips content can be a creative journey. Ensuring your grammar, punctuation, and spelling are spot on is crucial in the editing and proofreading stages. Understanding the writing process and overcoming writer's block is vital for inspiration. Developing characters, structuring plots, and mastering storytelling techniques, point of view, and dialogue are essential for captivating narratives. Building conflict within a well-described setting requires careful revision.
100+ fantasy writing prompts for inspo
Fantasy writing prompts to give you inspo for your next book
Creating a Memorable Villain in Dungeons and Dragons or any TTRPG
Learn how to create a memorable Dungeons and Dragons (or any TTRPG) villain for your game. Learn about motive, backstory, personality, and everything else to create a villain your players will love to hate or maybe even want to join (the choice is yours).
Writing Monsters: How to Craft Believably Terrifying Creatures to Enhance Your Horror, Fantasy, an d Science Fiction
Monsters are more than things that go bump in the night... Monsters are lurking in the woods, beneath the waves, and within our favorite books, films, and games--and there are good reasons why they appear so often. Monsters are manifestations of our fears and symbols of our society--not to mention they're a lot of fun--but each should serve a purpose and enhance the themes and tension in your fiction. In Writing Monsters, best-selling author Philip Athans uses classic examples from books, films, and the world around us to explore what makes monsters memorable--and terrifying. You'll learn what monsters can (and should) represent in your story and how to create monsters from the ground up. Writing Monsters includes: - In-depth discussions of where monsters come from, what they symbolize, an
Tons of Character Ideas for Creative Writers
Need some extra inspiration for the characters in your novel, short story or screenplay? Read this article to see tons of great ideas that you can adapt and use for your own character development! Save this pin for when you're writing!
How to create mood boards for your books!
Mood boards are one of the best ways to give yourself inspo for your books and help you learn more about the aesthetic of your story and characters and the world that you're building
How to write a character arc that works | writing tips and tricks
The idea of a character arc traces the way a character changes across the length of a story and here is how you can write an amazing character arc that will make readers interested in your story