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Man Made follows a mysterious force as it sweeps around the globe erasing anything man made - from buildings, vehicles, and technology to medicines, clothing, and dental work.

Governments stagger under the panic, religions are at a loss for an explanation, scientists strive for any means to stop or divert the phenomenon, and the world’s population from families to individuals struggle to prepare for The Event, which will drive humanity back beyond the stone age.

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The Creativity Two-Step


Character Arc 101


How to Beat Writer’s Block


How To Create Great Characters


Character Development Tricks!


Never Be Stuck for a Plot Again!


Avoiding the Genre Trap


Creating Characters from Scratch


Creating Characters from Plot


Conflict Can Limit Your Characters


Introducing Characters - First Impressions



Tips for Beginning Writers


Ten Essential Tips for Beginning Writers

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How to Find Inspiration

What Chases Your Characters?

Write Your Novel Step By Step

The Creativity Two-Step

A Novelist’s Bag of Tricks!

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Four Essential Plot Points

Creating Characters from Scratch

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Your Plot Step by Step

Top Story Development Software


Characters


Your Story Will Fail (if you don’t have this…)


How To Create Great Characters


Character Development Tricks!


Creating Characters from Scratch


How to Grow a Sentence into a Story


Creating Characters from Plot


What Chases Your Characters?


“Hero” is a Four Letter word


How to Write Villains


Your Characters’ Personal Goals


Writing Heroes & Villains


Males vs. Female Problem Solving


Character Arc 101


Conflict Can Limit Your Characters


Love Interests and the Dramatic Triangle


Writing from a Character's Point of View


Introducing Characters - First Impressions


Should Your Main Character Be Linear Or Holistic?


The “Influence Character” in a Nut Shell


Characters - The Attributes of Age


Should Your Main Character Change or Remain Steadfast?


Should Your Main Character Start or Stop?


Create A Believable Character In 10 Easy Steps



Plot


Never Be Stuck for a Plot Again!


How to Grow a Sentence into a Story


Four Essential Plot Points


Your Plot Step By Step


Your Plot - Act by Act


Creating Characters from Plot


Is Your Story Driven By Actions Or Decisions?



Theme and Genre


Coming Apart At The Themes


A Few Words About Theme


Avoiding the Genre Trap


Genre - Act By Act



Creative Writing


Quick Tips


10 Essential Tips for Beginning Writers


Be A Story Weaver - NOT a Story Mechanic!


Writing from the Passionate Self


Finding Inspiration for Writing


The Creativity Two-Step


How Art Is Made


Finding Your Creative Time


How to Beat Writer’s Block



Story Development


The First Step In Writing ANY Novel


How to Grow a Sentence into a Story


The Creativity Two-Step


Writing with Globular Clusters


How Art Is Made…


Log Lines & Synopses


Psychoanalyze Your Story


Comparing Writing Software



Using Dramatica Story Structure


What is Story Structure?


Dramatica Explained in Plain Language


The Love Interest (and the Dramatic Triangle)


Beginner’s Guide to Dramatica Software


12 Essential Questions Every Writer Should Answer


Throughlines - and How To Use Them!


Stories with Main Characters who Change



Narrative Science


What Is Narrative?


When Narratives Collide


The False Narrative


A Lecture on Narrative Psychology


Overcoming Habits



Deep Dramatica Theory


Dramatica: The “Lost” Theory Book


Dramatica and the Number 64


A Few Words About Communication


Dramatica Theory Application on World Problems


“Ability” and Story Structure


Using Dramatica for Interactive Fiction


Dramatica: Inside the Clockwork


Narrative Structure and the I Ching



Narrative Psychology


Males vs. Female Problem Solving



Writing Novels


A Novelist's Bag of Tricks


Write Your Novel Step by Step (series)



Screenwriting


A Screenwriter’s Bag of Tricks



Constructive Criticisms


Atlas Shrugged: Book vs. Movie Adaptation


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What Is Truth? (The Character’s Dilemma)

Jurassic Park - Building a Better Dinosaur

How Art Is Made


Genre - Act By Act


Finding Inspiration for Writing


Your Plot Step By Step


Avoiding the Genre Trap


Finding Your Creative Time


Creating Characters From Scratch


The First Step In Writing ANY Novel


What Chases Your Characters?


What Is Narrative?

The Love Interest (and the Dramatic Triangle)

Blowing the Story Bubble

How StoryWeaver Came To Be


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