Three Strategies for Creating Progressively Escalating Complications

Unputdownable stories keep readers off balance, as one scene tips into another, and another, and the next. Each scene’s challenge demands a response, and each response spirals into fresh complications. But compelling stories don’t pile on problems in random…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/06/creating-escalating-complications/

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Build These Seven Growth Milestones into Your Character’s Arc

While there are many kinds of stories, most of them today are about a protagonist navigating a change or growth arc. In this model, the character undergoes a personal journey of evolution; they realize that their hurts, habits, or…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/04/build-growth-milestones-into-your-characters-arc/

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Writing 101: Effective Dialogue Techniques

Welcome to the next post in our Writing 101 series. The first installment covered common mistakes with dialogue mechanics, which are important to master if you want to write clear conversations readers (and editors and agents) can easily follow. But well-written conversations require more than proper…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/04/writing-101-effective-dialogue-techniques/

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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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