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Gabrielle Pollack wrote a new post, How Harry Potter Teaches Writers to Execute Breathtaking Plot Twists 1 week, 1 day ago
Plot twists can be both the most marvelous and mysterious elements of a story. As readers, sudden reveals urge us to turn the page. As writers, we scratch our heads, unsure how to artfully conceal information to […]
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Gabrielle Pollack commented on the post, Shelf 1 week, 3 days ago
Gah, stop making my feelings feel things, Mariposa. 😭 I love it so much!
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Gabrielle Pollack commented on the post, How to Organize Ideas into a Coherent Story 1 month, 1 week ago
Glad I could help! Combining ideas can be super fun. It’s cool to see what premises pop up. 🙂
Aw thanks! I love that word as well. XD
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Gabrielle Pollack commented on the post, How to Organize Ideas into a Coherent Story 1 month, 1 week ago
Yay! Thank you for reading. 🙂
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Gabrielle Pollack commented on the post, How to Organize Ideas into a Coherent Story 1 month, 1 week ago
Glad to help. 🙂
It does! Letting time pass can really help the little brain cells.
Aw I’m so happy you’re still working on it. 😀 (Why do you have to go punish my baby Tairock? Why? 😛 )
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Gabrielle Pollack commented on the post, How to Organize Ideas into a Coherent Story 1 month, 1 week ago
Thank you so much! 😀
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Gabrielle Pollack commented on the post, How to Organize Ideas into a Coherent Story 1 month, 1 week ago
I was thinking of her as I wrote that section. 😀 She is a fantastic love interest/mentor. And you’re right, Thomas was being pulled between her and his father. It really highlighted the theme. That book is so good. <3
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Gabrielle Pollack wrote a new post, How to Organize Ideas into a Coherent Story 1 month, 2 weeks ago
A blank page unleashes an infinite amount of plots, scenes, and characters that beg us to outline their existence in ink.
But, if we can’t channel our influx of ideas, the excitement of starting a new pr […]
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What a great article, Gabrielle! Your first point about merging character archetypes to support the theme (like love interest and mentor) made me think of Emma from Fawkes. She already knows the answer to the thematic question and serves as both a guide and love interest to Thomas. Thomas’s father is also a great foil to Emma/Thomas. Thomas can either follow his father’s example or Emma’s and that incorporates theme so well into the story’s conflict in Fawkes.
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I was thinking of her as I wrote that section. 😀 She is a fantastic love interest/mentor. And you’re right, Thomas was being pulled between her and his father. It really highlighted the theme. That book is so good. <3
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I love this article! Practical and helpful.
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Thank you so much! 😀
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This is a lifesaver. Thank you xD
I can also say that the last step, patience, works really well. I set aside a series two years ago and now it’s a million times better due to all the ideas I’ve gathered. (unfortunately, more pain for Tairock, too 😛 )-
Glad to help. 🙂
It does! Letting time pass can really help the little brain cells.
Aw I’m so happy you’re still working on it. 😀 (Why do you have to go punish my baby Tairock? Why? 😛 )
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Wow, this is so helpful!! Thanks so much Gabrielle!!
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Yay! Thank you for reading. 🙂
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Glad I could help! Combining ideas can be super fun. It’s cool to see what premises pop up. 🙂
Aw thanks! I love that word as well. XD
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Gabrielle Pollack replied to the topic Searching for Beta Readers 😀 in the forum General Writing Discussions 2 months, 2 weeks ago
@pursuewisdom @serenity I’m tagging you two again because I know I got an email from one of you, but it vanished and I’m not sure who it was from. XD I didn’t get a chance to save the address. If that was one of you, could you send your email address again?
Thanks a thousand 😀
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Gabrielle Pollack commented on the post, Four Tactics to Make Tragedy More Meaningful in Your Stories 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Glad you liked it 😀
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Gabrielle Pollack replied to the topic Searching for Beta Readers 😀 in the forum General Writing Discussions 2 months, 2 weeks ago
@serenity @wordsmith Alright my friends. The first bit of Ridgeline goes out tomorrow! Which means I need your emails so I can send the doc to you. XD If you don’t mind, could you send your emails to zoerider 2010 @ gmail . com ?
@pursuewisdom I’ll be sending out parts throughout the month until I finish editing 🙂 The first bit goes out…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Pollack commented on the post, Four Tactics to Make Tragedy More Meaningful in Your Stories 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Yay! I’m glad this article helped you with all your story’s tragedy. 😉
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Gabrielle Pollack commented on the post, Four Tactics to Make Tragedy More Meaningful in Your Stories 2 months, 2 weeks ago
*gasps* My article has been called worthy of bookmarking. That is high praise indeed. Thank you. 🙂
Civil War is pretty great 😀
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Gabrielle Pollack wrote a new post, Four Tactics to Make Tragedy More Meaningful in Your Stories 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Authors are notorious for inflicting pain upon their characters. In our defense, how else would we propel the plot if our characters didn’t brave the gauntlet?
But if misfortune only serves to move the pl […]
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Love this, Gabrielle! 🙂 Thank you! I’ll need to bookmark this one for future reference.
P.S. Loved the Marvel examples you gave 🙂 Civil War is one of my favorite Marvel films. And very timely, too – ahem, ahem Endgame.
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*gasps* My article has been called worthy of bookmarking. That is high praise indeed. Thank you. 🙂
Civil War is pretty great 😀
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I love this!! Thank you!! I have a lot of tragedy in my stories *cough wannabe stories cough*, so this was really helpful!!
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Yay! I’m glad this article helped you with all your story’s tragedy. 😉
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Ooh, awesome, this is so great!
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Glad you liked it 😀
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Planning a story about indentured servants. Obviously gonna be full of tragedy and pain and one character gets sold into slavery at the end so this article was fantastic!!!
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Gabrielle, thank you for sharing this. I think it’s definitely easy to fall into the category of authors who just throw random things that make the story interesting in just for the sake of getting it in. I so appreciated what you talked about under “make pain meaningful” and “tragic stories mirror reality”. So true–thanks for this great reminder <3
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I’m considering working on a tragedy plot bunny I have… I actually wrote a little in it today. Nice post!!
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This was so good, Gabrielle – the examples you gave were really great. Love this article!
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Gabrielle Pollack replied to the topic Searching for Beta Readers 😀 in the forum General Writing Discussions 2 months, 3 weeks ago
@cassandraia I know you have XD No worries, you have been on my list for a while.
@wordsmith First of all…You’re an INTJ? I didn’t know that.
Secondly, YAY! I will add you to the list. If you are sure. I don’t want you to overload yourself and then get stressed out (because I do that all the time and it stinks).
Oh, and you wouldn’t have to…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Pollack replied to the topic Catching Up in the forum New Wessex Writing Discussions 2 months, 3 weeks ago
@germaine-han Yay exams! 😀 *sarcasm sarcasm* I hope you have time for editing soon! I hate that feeling of wanting to write but having other responsibilities. It’s rather annoying.
@literatureforthelight Hi! I don’t know if we’ve officially met yet (unless I have short term memory loss) XD. I’m Gabrielle, at your service. *bows*
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Gabrielle Pollack replied to the topic What's the hardest thing about being a writer? in the forum Weekly Theme Discussion 2 months, 3 weeks ago
@eden-anderson Nope, you’re not the only one! XD And @Kate had some good words to say on parental support. I’ve felt the way you do at certain points in the journey, and it is tough. It took me a while to understand that, just because most people think I’m strange for loving storytelling, don’t care terribly about my stories, or don’t…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Pollack replied to the topic Review help wanted in the forum General Writing Discussions 2 months, 3 weeks ago
@daeus-lamb Alright I’m down. 😀
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Gabrielle Pollack replied to the topic Word War #3 in the forum Word Wars 2 months, 3 weeks ago
YAY WORD WARS! 😀 I…probably won’t be able to get anything in cuz I’m supposed to be editing, but still. GO EVERYONE! 😀
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Gabrielle Pollack replied to the topic Review help wanted in the forum General Writing Discussions 2 months, 3 weeks ago
@daeus-lamb Oh dear Idk if I can swing it. When do you need the review by?
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