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Writing 202: Wake Up to Start
Writing, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 11/05/2025 Writing, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 11/05/2025

Writing 202: Wake Up to Start

In today’s blogpost, Anne and I discuss starting with waking up. I love waking up; Anne, not so much. But in writing? Let’s find out!

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Character 105: From Character to Person
Character, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 26/01/2025 Character, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 26/01/2025

Character 105: From Character to Person

In today’s blogpost, Anne and I terrorise Bob more and ask, what is the difference between a character... and a person?

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Writing 201: Fight Scenes
Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 20/10/2024 Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 20/10/2024

Writing 201: Fight Scenes

In today’s Spooky October blogpost, the great Sun Anne will share her wisdom on how to set up and write compelling fight scenes from beginning to end.

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Character 104: Defining your Character
Character, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 09/06/2024 Character, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 09/06/2024

Character 104: Defining your Character

In this week’s blogpost, Anne and I continue our exploration of building characters by looking at various strategies to define your characters.

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Writing 201: Humour
Writing, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 05/05/2024 Writing, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 05/05/2024

Writing 201: Humour

In today's blogpost, Anne and I discuss humor: what it is, why it exists, how to use it in writing, plus we give descriptions of a variety of different types.

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Writing 105: Genre
Writing, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 17/03/2024 Writing, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 17/03/2024

Writing 105: Genre

Anne and I categorize various writing genres and the promises they make.

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Character 103: Trauma and Edumucation
Character, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 25/02/2024 Character, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 25/02/2024

Character 103: Trauma and Edumucation

Anne and I talk about how education and trauma play important roles in how a character becomes who they are.

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Character 101: Character Flavours
Character, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 17/12/2023 Character, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 17/12/2023

Character 101: Character Flavours

Anne Winchell and I discuss how to make a well-rounded character using flavours as a metaphor.

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Writing 201: Subtext
Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 05/11/2023 Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 05/11/2023

Writing 201: Subtext

Anne Winchell discusses subtext and how to use it effectively; I sabotage it, sometimes.

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Character 102: Setting the Foundation
Character, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 16/10/2023 Character, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 16/10/2023

Character 102: Setting the Foundation

Anne Winchell and I discuss characters' childhoods and how they affect their future

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Writing 102: Dialogue
Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 01/10/2023 Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 01/10/2023

Writing 102: Dialogue

Anne Winchell talks and speaks and expounds about dialogue and how to do it well

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Writing 102: Conflict
Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 11/09/2023 Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 11/09/2023

Writing 102: Conflict

Anne Winchell discusses conflict in literature and how it is vital to a story in some form.

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Character 101: Getting Started
Character, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 27/08/2023 Character, Strategies Vivian Sayan & Anne Winchell 27/08/2023

Character 101: Getting Started

Anne and I talk together about how to make a character and the start of development, and we begin of a new series.

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Writing 101: Dramatic Structure
Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 02/07/2023 Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 02/07/2023

Writing 101: Dramatic Structure

Anne Winchell details ways to structure stories around a dramatic question from the 3 Act Structure to the Hero’s Journey and beyond.

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Writing 101: Exposition
Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 23/04/2023 Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 23/04/2023

Writing 101: Exposition

Anne Winchell comes back yet again to discuss how to improve information giving in writing without turning it into infodumps, exposition is important.

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Worldbuilding 101: Cogs
Worldbuilding, Strategies Vivian Sayan 19/03/2023 Worldbuilding, Strategies Vivian Sayan 19/03/2023

Worldbuilding 101: Cogs

A short blog where I explain the concept of a cog in worldbuilding as I introduce it

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Writing 101: Point of View
Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 12/03/2023 Writing, Strategies Anne Winchell 12/03/2023

Writing 101: Point of View

My friend Anne Winchell goes into point of view in writing.

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