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The Writer's Inner Critic Part II: Stop Awfulizing and Start Writing!
People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. -Albert EllisThe Inner Critic can be the writer's worst enemy. Each time we sit down to work, it feeds on our insecurities, reminds us of past failures, and criticizes everything we put... Common Misconceptions About Psychotherapy for Fiction Writers
Some ideas about therapy show up so often in fiction I find myself wondering how many writers are using them deliberately and how many just don't realize they're inaccurate. Here are six of the most common, along with some information on more standar... The Writer's Inner Critic Part I: Know Your Enemy
All of us have an inner Critic; unfortunately, its voice tends to be particularly strident when we sit down to write. "You're no good at this," it says. "Your ideas are stupid. Why would anyone want to read what you wrote anyhow?" Or maybe it wai... Being Creative: The Right-Brain/Left-Brain Myth and Flow
Most of us find it hard to imagine bestselling authors struggling with their manuscripts or suffering from writers’ block. Instead we assume they have something special we have to find or develop, and we search in vain for the magical form... The Other in Fiction: Creating Wonderfully Wicked Villains
Characters with psychological problems and quirks have appeared as long as people have told stories. For most of recorded history, madness has been the work of angry gods and mischievous demons, and in many developing countries people still believe ... Three-Dimensional Villains: Finding Your Character’s Shadow
Characters with psychological problems and quirks have appeared as long as people have told stories. For most of recorded history, madness has been the work of angry gods and mischievous demons, and in many developing countries people still believe ... Creating Riveting Romances in Fiction: The Anima/Animus Archetype (Part 2)
Mary Sue's Always Been Out There:The Perfect Hero and the Perfect HeroineEvery archetype has a positive and a negative side. As we saw in the Three-Dimensional Villains article, the villain is the negative aspect of the shadow, while creativity is th... Creating Riveting Romances in Fiction: The Anima/Animus Archetype (Part 1)
Psychological research shows a mere three things are crucial to human happiness, and one of them is love.* Gods and goddesses of love, passion, fertility, and even marital fidelity appear in the earliest historic writings, and many of the stories tha...
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