Two Craft-Boosting Black Friday Deals for Writers
The best thing about Black Friday sales is how writers can put themselves first, picking up affordable resources that will make a huge impact on their writing success. I love that! Every year, we offer discounts so your dollars go further, and this year is no exception. What is…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/11/black-friday-deals-writers/
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How to Show Your Character’s Repressed Emotions
Crafting characters that readers will connect to is every writer’s goal and dozens (hundreds?) of methods exist to achieve it: deep backstory planning, character profile sheets, questionnaires, etc. Regardless of the roadmap a writer uses, writing an authentic character boils down to one…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/09/show-repressed-emotions/
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How to Differentiate Stories from AI Slop
Use Context to Deepen Our Writing From AI Slop For as long as I’ve been a writer, I’ve heard the advice, “Only write if you can’t not write.” The idea behind that tough-love guidance is that writing can be ridiculously hard work, publishing can be even harder, and that most published…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/09/how-to-differentiate-stories-from-ai-slop/
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How to Show Your Character Healing from an Emotional Wound
When it comes to writing a story where a character is going to work through a difficult past wound, there are two behavioral states to convey: one showing their brokenness and dysfunction, and one displaying hard-won insight, self-acceptance, and increased…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/08/character-healing-from-an-emotional-wound/
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Tap into Your Character’s Unmet Need to Strengthen Your Story
Life can be painful, especially for our characters. In fact, the fallout of an emotionally wounding event such as a car accident, failing to save someone’s life, infertility, or being sent away as a child can derail their life for…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/07/tap-into-your-characters-unmet-need-to-strengthen-your-story/
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