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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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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