Script Events Competitions Archive Subscribe Shop

Online Writing Workshops

July/August 2026 Issue

Online Membership

Write Better Fiction Write Better Nonfiction Write Better Poetry Get Published Be Inspired WD Competitions Resources

Character arc

Character Channeling Marilyn: 5 Tips for Fictionalizing a Dead Celebrity

Author Mima Tipper shares five tips for fictionalizing a dead celebrity by focusing on her own novel inspired by Marilyn Monroe.

Character I Made My Characters With Tarot Spreads and So Can You!A.E. Osworth

Character How to Write an Unreliable Narrator Readers Still Root For Rea Frey

Character Creating a Great Cast of Suspects for Your Mystery C. S. Harris

Character 7 Common Character Arc Problems and How to Fix Them Sarah Branson

Character My Fictional Character Got Canceled, So I Wrote Her a PR Strategy Lior Torenberg

Character Character Arcs: Turning Inner Struggles Into Story Power Sarah Branson

Character How to Write a Character Readers Will Root For—And Question Trilina Pucci

Character Creating Magic From the Mundane: 4 Tips for Making Your Work So Much Bigger Than Your Characters’ Limited Lives Laura Venita Green

Plot Keeping Track of Your Story With Maps and Paper Dolls Lisa K Friedman

Character Writing a Character Who Struggles With Doubt Katy Farber

Character Once More, With Feeling: Writing Interiority That Resonates in Fiction Finnian Burnett

Character What Truly Separates a Hero From a Villain?Jack Anderson

Character Exploring Nature vs. Nurture in a New Way in Fiction Michael Swartz

Character Almost Antihero: 4 Tips on How to Keep a Flawed Protagonist Human Matt Riordan

Dialogue Writing a Character Who Speaks Volumes Without a Voice Amy Rossi

Newsletter

Subscribe directly from us by clicking this link