Killing Characters

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How to Kill a Character

All writers become murderous sooner or later, but it’s important to kill your character in the right way, at the right time and for the right reason. I hope this worksheet will help you premeditate the perfect coup de grâce.

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❄️✒️ A few fountain pen snowflakes I was p

❄️✒️ A few fountain pen snowflakes I was playing around with last year after I discovered the symmetrical drawing assist feature in Procreate. 😊
This exercise definitely made me realise how EFFICIENT symmetry is, especially binary symmetry!
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📕 Current progress on my gothic/DA novel, 𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗: SLOW.
✍🏻✨☕️ Current delight in sitting down at my desk to write: OFF THE CHARTS! 🥰

✍🏻☕️ Are you doing NaNoWriMo this year?

✍🏻☕️ Are you doing NaNoWriMo this year?
If you’d like some help preparing, you can find a link to these Preptober prompts in my NaNo story highlights.
I think I’m going to be rebelling for the 2nd year in a row and working on my gothic/dark academia novel, 𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗. 🖤
The thought of having the first draft printed and sitting on my desk before the end of the year is a super attractive one! 😍📚
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✨ "People who find resonant heroic themes of cha

✨ "People who find resonant heroic themes of challenges and questing in their own lives, in their goals, creative outpourings, in their day- and night-dreams— are being led to a single psychic fact. That is, that the creative and spiritual lives of individuals influence the outer world as much as the mythic world influences the individual." - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
✍🏻☕️ I've finished proofreading my looong article, and it's now available for students of the One Page Novel course. You can find it under, 'Advanced Lessons'. I hope it gives you some enticing new ideas to work with! 🖤📚🤯
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I asked the Midjourney AI to imagine a scene from

I asked the Midjourney AI to imagine a scene from my gothic novel and I was blown away by the results! 🤯
This is so close to how I pictured the “Old Library” in my novel world. You can read a rough draft of the opening scene in my 𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗 highlights.
If you’re a writer, there’s an abundance of inspiration to be found in the results of your own AI prompts, and also in scrolling (or searching) through others’ imaginations! 💎
( 👉🏻 swipe to see the unedited quartet that Midjourney returned)
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✍🏻✨ Current word count on my gothic/DA nove

✍🏻✨ Current word count on my gothic/DA novel, 𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗: 80,393.
Current desk setup: 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
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