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So, one tool I love using is The Enneagram of Personality when developing characters. It's insanely useful, as it can help make sense of characters and help give direction beyond just the surface details. To show what I mean (and give an example of this in action), I decided to analyze and break...

There's a book I read earlier this year that helped me contextualize the patterns of fiction writers, based on the observations of an experienced and prolific author who has written over 50 novels in all kinds of different genres and for franchises. It's a short one and I really want to pass...

So, got a new angle going for things this week! Instead of talking prose, I'm talking VILLAINS! This topic is a little something I started thinking about months ago after reading a bit of Manga in Theory & Practice. Araki (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) shared something in it about how mixing in...

I noticed certain patterns when giving feedback to people (which I'm going to get back to doing.) This video is my attempt to help with quite a few prose-related things in as efficient packaging as I can at present. While I always maintain that anybody can ignore me and do what they ultimately...

I've noticed a lot of web novelists who could benefit from some lessons on POV and how it impacts prose, particularly with how often they use guide narration for reasons I discuss in this video. For those who are interested in digging more into this type of stuff, I put this together in as...

Figured I'd share a bit more again from some stuff I think can help developing writers. I'm sure we've all encountered The Monomyth aka The Hero's Journey some time or another, so I made one video breaking down some issues with Joseph Campbell's theory and why it shouldn't be treated as the end...

I made a thread previous on this first video I made, but I can't find it, so this is quicker. I've completed a series of videos on designing magic systems that can help out anybody at the beginning who is struggling or wants a new perspective on putting them together. I break it down with...

I created this to help out everybody working on magic systems, and I figured, why not post it here and point people to it? Hopefully, it can help you out with whatever you're doing. It's one of the three things I consider when designing a system.

Been releasing 2 chapters weekly for a little over a month now and since the first act is up in full, figured I'd finally drop some stuff here. If you're interested in a crime story along the lines of things like Lupin, Leverage, Ocean's Eleven, The Italian Job, and Now You See Me, I'd recommend...

Do you find starting a story a daunting task? I do. Luckily, I always have my mountains of research on the writing craft to fall back on. It's helped me out a great deal over the years in building my confidence and I'd love to share a bit of it with those who are interested. I can't guarantee...