Free Workshop: How to Write Fear That Feels Real

Writing authentic fear reactions can be challenging—even when we understand our character well. Why? Because each character has their own personality, background, trauma, and triggers, meaning their fear response to perceived threats will be unique. Showing our character’s fear-driven behavior, choices, and perceptions is a skill worth mastering because fear is a powerful common ground...
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Fear Thesaurus Expansion at One Stop for Writers + Save 25%

As many of you know, we recently released a new book – The Fear Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to What Holds Characters Back. This volume takes you into the dark world of fear and how it steers your character’s actions, choices, and behavior, reshaping how they see the world, themselves, and what they’re willing to...
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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...
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Lessons from Ironheart: Why Flawed Characters Create the Strongest Stories

When it comes to storytelling, nothing hooks readers faster than a character who feels real. And despite being buried under a pile of negative pre-release hype, Marvel’s Ironheart proves this point beautifully. Instead of presenting a…
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New Writing Resource: A Character Type & Trope Thesaurus

In 2024, Becca and I began exploring character tropes and archetypes with one goal in mind: to create a resource that helps writers better use tropes by providing each one’s behaviors, strengths, flaws, tendencies, and more, so they could write characters…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/05/character-type-trope-thesaurus/

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Giving Your Characters Flaws
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http://georgelthomas.com/2024/04/16/giving-your-characters-flaws/

Using a Character’s Personality Traits to Generate Conflict

When it comes to generating conflict, your character’s personality can help ensure sparks fly, especially when their traits clash with someone else’s. When people grate on one another their interactions become filled with misunderstandings, power…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/04/clashing-personalities-to-create-conflict/

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Five Ways to Get Your Protagonist to Realize They’re the Problem

We’ve all heard the writing advice that we need to throw rocks at our protagonists. More obstacles, more tough choices, and more loss test them and force them to grow and change. This is all true and necessary. But one…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/04/five-ways-to-get-your-protagonist-to-realize-theyre-the-problem/

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Giving Your Characters Flaws
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http://georgelthomas.com/2024/04/16/giving-your-characters-flaws/