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@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social · Apr 07, 2026
Is Fear Weakening Your Story? 5 Mistakes to Check Writing about your character’s fear can be tricky because it rarely sits out in the open where everyone can see it. Instead, fear is hidden, rationalized, or the character puts on a mask and pretends it isn’t there at all. Yet when fear is shown well, it becomes an obvious force driving a character’s decisions,... The post Is Fear Weakening Your Story? 5 Mistakes to Check appeared first on WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®. https://writershelpingwriters.net/2026/04/is-fear-weakening-your-story-5-mistakes-to-check/ #CharacterArc #Characters #Fear #FearThesaurus #Innerconflict
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@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social · Apr 06, 2026
Internal Conflict vs. External Conflict: The Shift From Projection to Agency in Character Arc One of the easiest mistakes in writing is assuming stories are about the external action of defeating the antagonistic force, when in reality they are about what the protagonist must become in order to face that conflict. Internal conflict vs. external conflict reveals how your story’s character arcs operate beneath the plot. The tension between […] The post Internal Conflict vs. External Conflict: The Shift From Projection to Agency in Character Arc appeared first on Helping Writers Become Authors. https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/internal-conflict-vs-external-conflict-character-arc/ #Characters #Podcast #antagonist #characterarc #conflict
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@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social · Mar 19, 2026
How Fear Shrinks Your Character’s World Over Time Fear is something we all experience, a psychological early warning system that alerts us to possible danger. When we encounter a situation that contains unknowns, fear kicks in. Even if we do not yet know what is triggering our unease, our senses heighten, our blood pressure rises, and we go on high alert, searching for... The post How Fear Shrinks Your Character’s World Over Time appeared first on WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®. https://writershelpingwriters.net/2026/03/how-fear-shrinks/ #Backstory #CharacterArc #CharacterWound #Characters #Emotion
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@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social · Mar 05, 2026
How to Write Authentic Character Behavior Some stories stick with us more than others, and why? The characters. They feel so real. How they view life, the way they interact with others, the beliefs that steer them and their reactions to setbacks…it somehow all rings true. They might be nothing like us. We may not agree with their choices. But even... The post How to Write Authentic Character Behavior appeared first on WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®. https://writershelpingwriters.net/2026/03/write-authentic-character-behavior/ #Backstory #BasicHumanNeeds #CharacterArc #CharacterFlaws #Characters
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@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social · Feb 13, 2026
When Friday the 13th Meets Valentine’s Day This is the second month in a row where the post I anticipated writing has been preempted by events—this time, by the calendar. Given the conjunction of two of the year’s most emotionally charged days, how could I not write about fear and love? Let me tell you a story. One of the most significant writing workshops I ever took part in was titled “Finding the Story.” It was run by screenwriter Gill Dennis, most famous for his script for the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. In the workshop, Gill provided three cues, and we were to write scenes from our own past that those prompts suggested. The prompts were, in order: Moment of Greatest Fear Moment of Greatest Shame I Love You … https://writerunboxed.com/2026/02/13/when-friday-the-13th-meets-valentines-day/ #CRAFT #REALWORLD #Writinglife #character #characterarc
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