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Storytelling Methods Every Writer Should Know.
Techniques that storytellers use to satisfy audiences.

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Four Key Moments When You Should Hold the Conflict

Conflict in every scene. It’s popular advice because it’s true. Conflict ratchets up the tension for readers because it makes the character’s success less likely, and readers start worrying about the hero’s ability to win. Will she find true love? Can he overcome his demons and move…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/12/four-moments-when-you-should-hold-the-conflict/

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Is Your Writing “Good Enough” to Publish?

I cringe at the title of this article, because we all know that writing is an art form, and there are thousands of ways to do it. Yet, I used this title because writers ask me daily if I can take a look at their work and let them know if it’s “any good”. These […]…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/11/is-your-writing-good-enough/

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How to Tell the Difference Between a Hook and Inciting Incident

Opening pages are notoriously hard to get right, especially in early drafts of your manuscript. I’ve read hundreds of opening chapters of novels in my work as a writing instructor and book coach and one of the most common issues I see…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/10/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-a-hook-and-inciting-incident/

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How to Use the Four Levels of Conflict to Strengthen Your Story

A cardinal sin of storytelling is to skimp on conflict, and no wonder. Those problems, challenges, obstacles, and inner struggles help keep readers engaged, casting doubt on the character’s ability to achieve their goal. Because readers are focused on what’s happening from one…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/08/strengthen-your-story-with-conflict/

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How to Show Your Character Healing from an Emotional Wound

When it comes to writing a story where a character is going to work through a difficult past wound, there are two behavioral states to convey: one showing their brokenness and dysfunction, and one displaying hard-won insight, self-acceptance, and increased…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/08/character-healing-from-an-emotional-wound/

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How to Amp up Your Story Setting

Taking the time to choose the right setting for each scene is one of the best ways to ensure our writing has impact. Why? Because the setting touches everything. It can characterize the story’s cast, evoke mood, generate conflict, shape the plot, and even use symbols and emotional triggers to show readers…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/07/amp-up-your-story-setting/

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How to Fictionalize Your Family

Linda Ulleseit, an award-winning author of historical fiction, shares tips and tricks for fictionalizing your family. Everyone has a story! The themes that run through family stories can have universal appeal, but actual evidence of a person’s life can be hard to find. Sometimes fiction is the only way to…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/07/fictionalizing-your-family/

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How to Use Hidden Experiences to Pull Readers In

No matter who your protagonist is—a formidable galactic emperor, a morally complex teenager, or the retiree down the street with too many cats—readers must find something fundamentally relatable about them, something that resonates with their own human experience. This causes them to feel…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/07/how-to-use-hidden-experiences-to-pull-readers-in/

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Find Symbols in Your Settings

We all want our writing to be layered. Like a gourmet meal, we want there to be more to them than just what’s seen on the surface. In stories, this depth can be added a number of ways—through subplots, character arc, subtext, theme, and symbolism. Of them all, I think symbolism is one of the…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/07/find-symbols-in-your-settings/

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