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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Lessons from Ironheart: Why Flawed Characters Create the Strongest Stories - Hidden Gems Book Blog

Giving your characters space to be messy and fail is the single best way to create stories that connect with your audience.

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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…
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New Writing Resource: A Character Type & Trope Thesaurus

The Character Types and Tropes Thesaurus helps you easily build a character using a beloved trope & then elevate them into someone original.

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Giving Your Characters Flaws

Hi everyone! How are you all? Today’s post is all about characters and, in particular, their flaws. Giving Your Characters Flaws Crafting a compelling character is no simple task; they need t…

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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…
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Using a Character's Personality Traits to Generate Conflict

Want characters to clash? Give them personality traits that will cause friction in their relationships, and then watch the sparks fly!

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

If your character’s story is an everyone else problem, where is the space for your protagonist to exercise agency? To grow and change?

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Mayor Todd Gloria’s Brick Wall? - It is sad that the mayors character flaws are so large. @dougporter506 https://open.substack.com/pub/dougporter/p/mayor-todd-glorias-brick-wall?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #CharacterFlaws
Mayor Todd Gloria’s Brick Wall?

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Giving Your Characters Flaws

Hi everyone! How are you all? Today’s post is all about characters and, in particular, their flaws. Giving Your Characters Flaws Crafting a compelling character is no simple task; they need t…

GEORGE L THOMAS
I need a close friend what hae the courage tae be very blunt wi me. I bide in the South where lying is part of the culture. #CharacterFlaws #Ghosting #RejectionSensitiveDysphoria #SelfLoathing #Dating #Polyamory