How to Create Character Vision Boards Using Canva

How to Create Character Vision Boards Using Canva

April 03, 2019

Have you ever created a vision board? Or perhaps a dream board? When you were younger you may have cut out pictures from magazines and inspirational quotes and glued them to a poster board. They made your dreams visual, you were able to get those images from your eyes into your head instead of just imagining what they would look like.

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Scrivener: A Powerful Tool for Writers

Scrivener: A Powerful Tool for Writers

March 27, 2019

Scrivener is a software that allows you to effectively write your novel by keeping everything in one place including your notes, drafts, characters and settings. This is not a free tool, but rather a low-cost one-time investment that will dramatically improve your productivity (once you learn how to use it).

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How to Create Well Developed Characters

How to Create Well Developed Characters

March 13, 2019

Sure, your story is very important, but that story is nothing without good characters. If we are going to go through an entire book with them, we need to care about them, we need to root for them.

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How to Create a Writing Ritual Using Candles

How to Create a Writing Ritual Using Candles

March 06, 2019

We’ve all been there before, we tell ourselves we’ll write tomorrow, or next week or really next month because things have gotten really crazy around the house lately. Blink and it’s been months since you’ve sat down to work on your novel.

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How to Write a Novel Using the 3-Act Structure

How to Write a Novel Using the 3-Act Structure

February 28, 2019

The three-act story structure is something that has been around a long time whether you realize it or not. In grade school, you may have been familiar with words like exposition, midpoint and climax...

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5 Things to Do When You Don't Feel Like Writing

5 Things to Do When You Don't Feel Like Writing

February 20, 2019

You know you should be writing instead of reading this blog post right? Okay good, the first step is admitting you have a problem. 

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The New Crescent Crown Designs

February 10, 2019

Welcome to Crescent Crown Designs Friend! I have been working on this since November when I came home from the Creative at Heart Conference. Sitting there at my parents home over the Thanksgiving holiday I worked through some exercises and workbooks to find a niche. I was searching through my notes and worksheets...

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