Writer Unleashed

There's a lot of writing advice floating around. But most of it shackles writers more than it helps, and sometimes leads to paint-by-number stories.  In this episode, learn common traps when it comes to plot, action, backstory, show, don't tell, and point of view. You'll turn around misconceptions and learn what to do instead.

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What does character thought have to do with plot? It's the connective tissue that brings continuity to your story, scene by scene. It helps fill in all those plot holes. And it keep your reader grounded in what's happening as your story advances. 

Character thought is part of the action. It's the connective tissue that accomplishes 3 things:

1. reminds your reader what happened earlier,
2.  establishes desire and motive in the present, and 
3. creates suspense about what might happen next. 

In this episode, you'll learn 3 ways to have characters think their way through your scenes to give your plot continuity.

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How do you harness the depth and complexity of your story material? And orchestrate all those story threads so that they intensify your plot?  By creating subplots. Learn two ways subplots work,  plus three places your subplots may already be hiding out in your WIP waiting to be developed.

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What’s the most overlooked way to show how a character feels?

The vowel scale - the poet's secret weapon.  Just like musical notes, vowel sounds have frequencies that create vibrations in the reader's body, making them feel with your character. In today's episode, you'll learn how to use the frequencies of these vowel sounds to reinforce the emotion, tone, images, and meaning of your story.

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 How do you create the kind of suspense that keeps readers riveted to your pages, hanging on every sentence? 

Suspense doesn't happen in the broad strokes - trouble, cliffhangers, sympathetic characters, etc. It's built sentence by sentence. And there are two simple techniques you can apply right now.  In today's episode, you'll learn how to orchestrate details that  bring tension and suspense right on the sentence level, creating insatiable readers. 

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Readers crave novelty and surprise. They don't want the same cliched description of a sunset. Or the expected character response to betrayal.  But coming up with original ideas, especially  for ordinary things like sunsets, requires us to tap into our own creative reservoir.

In today's episode, we'll explore 4 ways to keep your creative channels open. So you can access your original take on the world, and write stories that surprise and delight. 

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How do you keep writing when you're paralyzed by self doubt?

By reprogramming faulty thought patterns.

In today's episode of Writer Unleashed, we'll re-frame common misconceptions about writing, and even misconceptions about your own abilities that are sabotaging you. 

We'll explore:

• What's really at the core of writer's block
• 3 Common thoughts that derail writers
• The truth about talent
• And why there's no such thing as failure

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Style can be the downfall of an otherwise stunning story.

That's because the writing calls  too much attention to itself and upstages the characters. It fights against your story and keeps your reader from getting fully engrossed.

Worse, it keeps you from getting deeply involved with your own story.

In today's episode, we'll talk about the elements that make up your writing style, and how to make sure your style integrates with your story. You want style to complement your story, not fight against it.   

We'll explore:

• Core elements that make  up style
• The reader's experience when style is amiss
• Common style errors
• 4 solutions to using style to amplify your story

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What's one of the quickest way to get your manuscript in the reject pile?

Too many adjectives and adverbs. 

Writers often think adjectives and adverbs describe vividly. But nothing could be farther from the truth.  Instead, they bloat your story with empty filler.  And bore your reader.

In today's episode, you'll learn how to eliminate or minimize adjectives and adverbs and replace them with more vivid language that activates the reader's imagination.

Have your manuscript handy to start editing.

You'll learn how to:

• Choose adjectives that surprise 
• Replace adjectives with images
• Rid your dialogue of  unnecessary adverbs, and use dialogue, gestures, and body language to carry the emotion instead
• Boost your nouns and verbs so you're not relying on adjectives and adverbs.  

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Don't  think or write chronologically? No worries. Stories bend to their own laws of time.

In today's episode, we'll look at 4 ways to manipulate time in your story. These will give you more range as the author,  and more tension and suspense for your reader.

We'll explore:

• Using  flashbacks to frame your story
• Using the figure 8 structure around an image or event
• Creating suspense through flash forwards
•  Reverse Chronological Order

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