By Lindsay Fortin CW: Fire Trauma is one of those things that appears often in stories. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book where a character doesn’t experience trauma, and it’s usually part of a character’s arc. You have to be mean to your characters in order for them to grow. It wouldn’t beContinue reading “How to Write Characters With Trauma: Nightmares, Flashbacks, and Triggers”
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On #Nanowrimo
We are almost there—the last four days of National Writing Month (or #Nanowrimo) in which we have all collectively spent drinking copious amounts of our caffeinated drink of choice, binging on snacks that don’t fit neatly into the four food groups and deep cleaning areas we have been putting off for months. This time IContinue reading “On #Nanowrimo”
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