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So Your Character is From Lebanon … Featuring Nadwa @ Painfully Fictional & Nicole @ A Dance Between the Pages

It’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a …

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So Your Character is from Greece … Featuring Lisa @ My Bookshelf Dialogues, Artemis @ The Radical Creative, and Zizeloni @ Zizeloni van Kat

It’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a …

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Writing Lessons from Movies: The Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl

It’s crazy to think that the writers of the Pirates of the Caribbean based its main idea from an iconic ride at Disney World. I’d went to this ride way before this movie was made and I was surprised when Disney announced was turning it into a film. Going back just last year, they’ve upgraded …

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So Your Character is From Uruguay … Featuring Ruty @ Reading Dreaming

It’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a …

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Villain Necrologies and Debacles: Studio Ghibli Edition

Villains meet their demises in so many different ways. For some this means death, for other this means an unfortunate incapacitating situation. Writers put a lot of thought into how their antagonist finally fails, but which way is best for your villain? That all depends on so many different circumstances, including audience and genre. This …

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So Your Character is From Portugal … Featuring Marta @ The Book Mermaid, Catia @ The Girl Who Read Too Much, & Joana @ Bookneeders

It’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a …

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