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“Hero” is a Four Letter Word (Free eBook)

If you are only writing with Heroes and Villains, you are limiting your stories!

Heroes and Villains are stereotypes, not archetypes.  As such, they are comprised of a number of different attributes which can be reassembled in different ways to create far more interesting and original leading characters.

In this new eBook, I pull together several of my best articles on heroes and villains along with new material to help your characters break free from the shackles of tired, cliche storytelling conventions.

Read this new eBook FREE online

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Purchase it for your Kindle for just $.99

50 Sure-Fire Storytelling Tricks!

Read my new eBook, 50 Sure-Fire Storytelling Tricks!, for free at http://storymind.com/articles/page11.htm

About the book – It’s not just what you say but how you say it. These fifty powerful and immediately useful “sure-fire” tips, tricks and techniques will super charge your storytelling and add life, interest, and sophistication to your novel or screenplay.

Welcome to the Storymind.com Writer’s Blog

Since 1997, Storymind has offered tools and resources to help writers get their stories told, ensure they are solidly structured, and to provide new insights into the emerging field of narrative science.

Storymind was founded by Melanie Anne Phillips, co-creator of the Dramatica theory of story structure and the software based upon it and creator of such products as StoryWeaver Step by Step Story Development software and Throughline Creative Index Card software.

This blog is an extension of our outreach mission to provide free writing tips, articles, streaming media and utilities  to support writers’ efforts in the areas of story structure and storytelling.

We hope you find this new blog both informative and enabling, and look forward to your comments.

Storymind