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Action vs. Information
Action, Compelling
Advice, how to handle the overload
Antagonists
Author, Narrator, Character
Beats disambiguation
Beats within scenes
Beginnings
Big-Picture Editing
Body Language
Breaking Writing Rules
Causality in stories
Centrifugal forces in stories
Character Arc, whole story
Character Arc, within scenes
Character Mixing Board
Character Motivation
Characters, standout
Conflict ≠ Tension
Conflict, problems vs. obstacles
Conflict within readers
Desire, how a character avoids
Dialogue, the two keys
Dialogue, triangulate
Discovery Writing
Earning story events
Emotion, 5 expressions of
Emotion in characters through body language
Escalating complications
Exposition in dialogue
Exposition in narration
External Action vs. Interiority
Filtering
Freytag’s Pyramid
Glossary of Writing Craft Terms
Habits for Productive Writing
Hero’s Journey, is it right for you?
Hyperdetailing
Inciting Incident
Interiority, lessons from “Cat Person”
Interiority vs. External Action
Internal Plot
Irony for Storytellers
Italics for thoughts
Manuscript problems
Momentum in stories
Motivation, messy
Movement (vs. action)
Narration, breaking it down
Objects in fiction
Omniscience, varieties of
Orientation
Pantsing, the case for
Protagonists, the essentials
Psychic Distance
Reader Engagement, the key
Realizations, how to write
Readers, finding ones to help you write
Reading, story consumption
Rejection, coping with
Revision for haters
Rising Action, escalating complications
Said as dialogue tag, synonyms or no?
Scene vs. summary
Sentiment and Sentimentality
Show, Don’t Tell, Problems with
Structure for novels, aggregate
Structure of novels, resources
Subjective Conflict (within readers)
Tension, 3 techniques for creating
Tension, stretching
Tensionless Conflict
Theme
Thoughts, formatting with italics or not?
Time Digressions, flashback, back story
Turning Points within Scenes
Urgent Story Questions
Voice, the true source
Workshopping, best approach
Writerly writing, avoiding
Writing craft terms, glossary of

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