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Beyond Story Structure to Focus on Now
This post will get to the focus on now after a brief walk down memory lane (the place where story structure lives in the links below).
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Show Your Character’s Change
Memorable stories show the hero’s transformation. Use the Enneagram to strike the right balance of before and after your character’s change.
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Redeem the Time to Write
To publish a full-length novel, you first have to redeem the time to write. Fortunately, your future comes one choice at a time.
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Best Writing Is Hard Work
Bestselling authors use patterns of rich descriptions (lyrical prose), fresh similes, and witty rants for best writing, and you can too!
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Survey Topics 2026
Like you, I love to read interesting and actionable posts about writing. My goal is to create posts that fit that benchmark, and you can play an important part.
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Use a Writer’s Toolbox to Develop Characters
Many authors discovered it’s much easier to keep everything they need in a writer’s toolbox. How about you?
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Write Like the Wind, but Edit Like a Surgeon
Both pantsers and plotters should consider this writing principle: write like the wind, but edit like a surgeon.
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Story Beats Will Solve Your Problem
Story beats will solve your problem of arranging hundreds of details by using this time-tested process.
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Free Story Beats Workbook Package
While updating a book draft, I kept referring to its Story Spine, Body, and Beats worksheets. I find these writing tools so useful, and that gave me the idea to give a free Story Beats Workbook Package to the first 50 people who sign up using the link on this page.
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How You Can Beat AI at Writing
The value you give readers can beat AI at writing by providing audiences with authentic human experiences and emotions.
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Pick Up Where Your Writing Flow Left Off
After other priorities, do you struggle to pick up and write where you left off? Restore your writing flow with the Story Spine.
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A Writer’s Goal and Story Structure
Story structure helps you fulfill your writer’s goal. Without an action plan, you risk losing your way and abandoning your writing project.
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