Fiction

What is a Content Strategist

What is a Content Strategist? Salary, Skills & Career Path

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In this post, you’ll learn what is a content strategist, their roles, responsibilities, skills, salary expectations, and industries. Content strategists are in high demand across multiple industries.  However, this profession requires a spectrum of skills, experience and an impressive portfolio. But before we get started on how to be a content strategist, let us clear …

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What is a round character: round vs flat character

Round vs Flat Characters: 5 Proven Tips to Create Round Characters

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Learn key differences between round vs flat character. Through examples and tips, we will deep dive into what is a flat character and what is a round character. Do you know what makes Harry Potter one of the most popular fictional characters? One can argue between the ‘magical world’ or ‘fight between good and evil.’ …

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writing aesthetics

Writing Aesthetic: 10 Creative Ways to Find & Develop it

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In this post, you’ll learn how to find your writing style and read ways to develop writing aesthetics. Every article, essay or book you have ever read has a certain vibe. It might not be easy to articulate a writing aesthetic, but you will recognize it by feeling it.  Using literary devices and narrative methods …

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conflict in a story

Conflict in a Story: Types, Examples, Helpful Tips

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Conflict in a story is the clash of opposing forces. It is the challenge main characters must solve to achieve their goals. In this post, you’ll learn about conflict in literature, different types of conflict in story, and how to create conflict in a story. What does Conflict mean? Conflict meaning: The word ‘Conflict’ has Latin origin, which means striking, but it isn’t …

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character development in writing

What is Character Development: 5 Tips for Writing Great Characters

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Any great story is not just a story of major events, immense struggles, and a happy ending. It becomes great because of those major events happening to the characters, their struggles, their actions, and their resolutions. Exciting twists and turns in the story can make the story interesting and engaging to read, but the characters …

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literary devices examples

17+ Powerful Literary Devices (With Examples) to Embellish Your Writing

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A few years ago, when my creative writing teacher was explaining the use of literary devices in novels or poems, she showed us this picture: Yes, that’s a before-and-after shot of a movie scene — a fantastic example of special effects (SFX) and visual effects (VFX) in cinematography.  So, the tutor asked us to look …

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Show don't tell

Show don’t tell: 7 tips to master this Golden Rule

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Show don’t Tell. We often hear this from critics, readers, mentors, teachers in the writing field and they leave it up to us to understand what they mean by ‘show don’t tell’. Which ultimately leaves us, the writers with a never-ending struggle of ‘how to show and not tell’.  “Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into …

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examples of sensory imagery

300+ Sensory Imagery Examples to Master Creative Writing

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As writers, we all struggle the most with bringing out how a character sees, perceives, smells, or feels. New writers often lag due to too much telling and too little showing. The rich imagery, the true essence, and a three-dimensional physical presence of everything around a character are what we find ourselves most entwined in. …

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