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Seven Powerful Ways to Add Complexity to Your Villain
By Jodi ClarkIf you’ve ever sat in a theatre or read a book and yawned every time the villain appeared on the scene,...
A Recipe for Evil: Six Ingredients for Creating a Sympathetic Villain
By Chelsea HindleEvery reader has that villain they like just a bit too much.From Zuko, and Loki, to Frankenstein’s...
Five Overused Clichés in Christian Fiction (and How to Avoid Them)
By Josiah DeGraafI have a love-hate relationship with Christian fiction.On the one hand, the genre has immense...
Three Things to Do When You Realize Your Plot Is Cliché
By Jamie DougallA brilliant new plot enters your mind. It charms you with...
How to Keep Yourself Organized While Writing
By LaToya GayAs a writer, it’s possible (and maybe even likely) that you aren’t...
Why It’s Okay to Have Clichés in Your Fantasy Novel
By Gabrielle Massman“Your story is a bit cliché, don’t you think?”For a long...
Interview with Rachel Starr Thomson on Writing, Editing, and Indie Publishing (Plus Giveaway!)
It gave us great pleasure to approach Rachel on behalf of Kingdom Pen and ask her about her experiences as an author...
Four Types of Plot Clichés That May Be Dragging Down Your Story
A few weeks ago, I picked a random book off the library shelf and started reading. The book,...
A Seven-Step Process to Solve Moral Quandaries in Christian Storytelling
When I was younger, I wrote without any intention of showing my stories to anyone outside of...
Twenty-Seven Examples of Ways to Bend Clichés
Although some clichés used to be powerful writing tropes, they have become trite with age, bringing as much life to...
Three Ways Gender Differences Should Impact Your Story’s Character Arc
By Josiah DeGraafA character arc is the process by which your protagonist grows and changes over the course of a...