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The Fawn Response: When You or Your Character Keep the Peace to Feel Safe The fawn response can look like people-pleasing, automatic agreement, or avoiding conflict. Learn how to recognize it in yourself and write it in believable characters....
The Freeze Response: Why You or Your Character Can’t “Just Do Something” The freeze response isn’t simply doing nothing. Learn how it may appear as stillness, a blank mind, or difficulty acting in yourself and believable fictional characters....
The Flight Response: When You and Your Character Run Without Going Anywhere The flight response doesn’t always mean running away. Learn how it can appear in fictional characters and ourselves through avoidance, busyness, overplanning, and the urge to escape....
The Fight Response: How to Write It in Your Characters and Recognize It in Yourself What does the fight response look like in a fictional character or in yourself? Explore common signs, dialogue, what may help, and a gentle writing exercise....
Stand Like a Superhero (and Tell Your Inner Critic to Sit Down)
Why I Start My Day Talking to Myself in a Power Pose (And You Should Too) Let’s be honest: some mornings, I wake up feeling like a potato with Wi-Fi. My hair’s doing interpretive dance, my to-do list is plotting against me, and my inner critic is already sipping espresso and judging me for hitting snooze four times. Sound familiar? That’s why I decided to fight back the only way I know how. By…
The Lying and Gaslighting Connection
How Authors Can Use Gaslighting to Write Complex Characters I was asked if all lying is gaslighting. Let’s explore what gaslighting is and how you can use it in your writing (and maybe avoid it in real life). Gaslighting is a powerful tool for creating dynamic, psychologically complex characters in fiction. By incorporating gaslighting behaviors, authors can craft manipulative antagonists or…
The Power of Shared Negative Experiences
How Collective Grievances Can Sour Memories and Harm Communities Negative experiences, whether personal or communal, have a profound impact on our emotional well-being. The process of sharing these experiences can be therapeutic, but when it evolves into a collective movement driven by negativity, it can lead to unintended consequences. Specifically, when one individual’s negative experience…
24 Mind Traps Writers Should Know
As writers, we’ve all spent countless hours inside our characters’ heads, unraveling their deepest fears, desires, and quirks. But let’s be honest—sometimes, our own minds can be even more chaotic than the characters we create. Here are 24 mind traps writers should know and how to use them. Why are these mind traps important? From overthinking every plot twist to doubting our writing choices…
Symbolism of Numbers for Writers
When structuring my novels, I get super nerdy about making every number, color, and name mean something. This list can serve as a reference for you to incorporate meaningful numerical symbolism into your work, whether they are crafting characters, settings, or themes. Without further ado, here’s the symbolism of numbers for writers. Numbers hold layers of significance, adding depth to…
The Art of Writing Witty Dialogue: 10 Tips
Dialogue is the heartbeat of any great story. It’s where characters come to life, where conflict simmers, and where humor can cut through tension like a knife. Here are 10 tips for writing witty dialogue. Witty dialogue, in particular, can elevate a story, giving it layers of complexity and nuance while simultaneously entertaining the reader. Whether your characters are bickering over a trivial…
Six Reasons to Create a Book Bible for Your Novel
Writing a novel is an exciting and complex journey, filled with countless ideas, characters, and plot twists. Whether you’re a seasoned author or just starting out, staying organized is key to maintaining consistency and ensuring that your story flows smoothly. One of the most effective tools for keeping track of your novel is a book bible—a comprehensive guide to your novel’s world, characters,…
Writing Manipulative Characters
Let’s face it, writing manipulative characters is so much fun. Unfortunately, people do this in real life too. This post will help you build your deceitful character (and also help you identify when you are being manipulated in real life). Manipulation is a form of aggression. We all understand it when it’s overt, but covert manipulation is harder to detect. And, when the person doing the…
Writing Characters: Antisocial Personality
I’m continuing my series inspired by Cluster B Personality Disorders because messy characters make great stories. You can check out my posts (links below). So, without further ado, here’s writing antisocial personality disorder. In this series: Classic Narcissists | Vulnerable Narcissist | Borderline Personality | Histrionic Personality | Antisocial Personality What is Antisocial Personality…
Writing Characters: Histrionic Personality
I’m continuing my series inspired by Cluster B Personality Disorders because messy characters make great stories. You can check out my posts on Classic Narcissists, Vulnerable Narcissist, and Borderline Personality too. Without further ado, writing characters—histrionic personality. Histrionic Personality Traits Histrionic personality disorder is characterized by constant attention-seeking,…
Writing Characters: Borderline Personality
As I said in my post on classic narcissists and vulnerable narcissists, messy characters make for great stories. So, here’s the next in my character profile series—writing borderline personality. Traits of Borderline Personality Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is marked by emotional instability and difficulty in relationships. People with BPD have trouble regulating their moods,…
Writing Characters: The Vulnerable Narcissist
As I said in my post on classic narcissists, messy characters make for great stories. So, here’s the next in my character profile series—writing vulnerable narcissists. Vulnerable narcissists are hard to spot and fun to write. A lesser-known type of narcissism is vulnerable narcissism (also referred to as closet, introverted, or covert narcissism). Vulnerable narcissists are self-absorbed,…
Writing Characters: The Classic Narcissist
Messy characters make for great stories. I’m starting a series with some character profiles that you can use to build and breathe life into your flawed creation. This post may also be a wake up call if you actually have one of these people in your life. So here is some info on writing narcissistic characters. There’s a lot of talk about narcissists, so let’s start this first in the series with…