Healthy Coping Mechanism Thesaurus: Celebrating Small Wins

When a character suffers emotional pain, the brain’s response is to stop the discomfort, and often this results in a coping mechanism being deployed. Whether it’s an automatic response or a learned go-to strategy, a mechanism helps them cope with the stress of the moment or escape the hurt of it. But if the character...
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Win Feedback on 10 Pages of Your Novel or One Fiction Picture Book

Want to wineditorial feedback and take your storyfrom good to great? Well, my writerly friend, you’re in luck! It’s time for our monthly Phenomenal First Pages contest. In this draw, you can win… Editorial feedback on the first 10 pages of a novel or one fiction picture book. Entering is easy. Leave your contact information on...
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Coping Mechanism Thesaurus Entry: Overindulging

When a character suffers emotional pain, the brain’s response is to stop the discomfort, and often this results in a coping mechanism being deployed. Whether it’s an automatic response or a learned go-to strategy, a mechanism helps them cope with the stress of the moment or escape the hurt of it. But if the character...
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Coping Mechanism Thesaurus Entry: Practicing Forgiveness

When a character suffers emotional pain, the brain’s response is to stop the discomfort, and often this results in a coping mechanism being deployed. Whether it’s an automatic response or a learned go-to strategy, a mechanism helps them cope with the stress of the moment or escape the hurt of it. But if the character...
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What Does a Character’s Fear of Change Look Like?

As we move closer to releasing The Fear Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to What Holds Characters Back, I wanted to share one of the entries that covers a fear that we will find at the heart of every story we write…and our own lives. The Fear of Change. Change is scary. It’s going from what...
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Finish the Book: Save 25% at One Stop for Writers

Writing can be frustrating. You see the story in your mind, but getting all those ideas onto the page? Sometimes, it’s harder than you expect. The plot tangles.Character feels flat.Tension peters out and the middle becomes a bloated mess. That’s when you start second-guessing everything: Did I mess the story up? Is it beyond fixing?...
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Why Writers Fear and Resist Change (and Characters Do, Too)

We’re often told to remember that the antagonist is the protagonist in their own story, and while this seems like a character-building tip, it’s actually a psychological one. Characters who think and behave like real people are the ones readers really connect to. And, more often than not, it’s the small, human moments that we...
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