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Are We Too “Domesticated” to Write Great Stories?

Kristen Lamb January 31, 2025 0 comment

Are we too “domesticated” to write truly great stories? This might seem like an odd question, but bear with me. I’ve been incredibly blessed over the course of my life to travel all over the world. While I did get to check out some of the resorts, my favorite travel stories seem to always involve Read more

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Fortitude: Dream, Do, Then Keep on DOING Day After Day

Kristen Lamb November 13, 2024 0 comment

Fortitude—enduring the tired, tedious and unremarkable chores—is what makes the difference between those who dream and those who do. Why am I talking about this? Because recently I saw some quote scroll past on social media. It was something (of course) posted by one of those super happy “life coach” people. Though I’m certain the Read more

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Schadenfreude: Misfortune, Revenge, Justice & Catharsis

Kristen Lamb October 23, 2024 0 comment

Schadenfreude is a word that many of y’all might not have heard of, yet we’ve all felt it. Interestingly enough, it can be a great tool to keep our audience interested and breathlessly wanting more. What is schadenfreude, other than a fifty dollar word we can toss around to impress friends and colleagues? Schadenfreude—a combination Read more

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Stakes: How to Hook an Audience All the Way to THE END

Kristen Lamb October 17, 2024 0 comment

Stakes, bizarrely enough, are a key ingredient missing in many stories. If the characters don’t have skin in the game, why would the audience? The bigger the stakes the better the page turner. Whether on the page or on the screen, what keeps audiences enraptured the most? What makes us spend an entire weekend inhaling Read more

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Agency: The Critical Component of ALL Great Stories

Kristen Lamb October 11, 2024 0 comment

Agency means a condition of being in action, instrumental, or possessing some kind of power. It can incorporate not only making decisions, but the belief that we (or our characters) have choice. If we think about it, if there aren’t options, then by default, our characters have no power and are not making any decisions. Read more

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How to Build an Audience, No Duct Tape Required

Kristen Lamb October 4, 2024 0 comment

How do we build an audience without coming across as a stalker crossbred with an MLM rep? This is no easy task, especially since most creative professionals don’t exactly shine in this area. Face it. If we’d been good at high pressure sales, we’d be languishing on our yacht along with other people who excel Read more

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Culture, Conflict & Creating Fresh Stories People LOVE

Kristen Lamb September 26, 2024 0 comment

Ah, culture. One word that can encapsulate so much. It’s nice and bendy, too, which is fabulous for story ideas (or for injecting more conflict in a story that feels flat). Put more than two humans together and somewhere, somehow they will find something to fight about. They might be from the same country, but Read more

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How to Create YOUR Audience: Identify, Connect, Convert

Kristen Lamb September 20, 2024 0 comment

Audience. How can we connect to an audience (readers) who will love our stories enough to buy, support and spread the word? This is the ever-present challenge on every author’s mind. If it isn’t, then it should be. The post before last, we had a big group hug and sang a little digital kumbayah in Read more

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Wounds & Characters: The Damaged REBORN!

Kristen Lamb September 13, 2024 0 comment

Wounds matter in life and in fiction. We’ve all been hurt in some way and to some degree. Just goes with being human. Admitting weakness, failure, mistakes, and flaws isn’t always easy. In fact, it can be downright terrifying for even the ‘strongest’ of us. It’s an especially daunting task in a world that idolizes Read more

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Help! I Think I am Having a Mid-Write Crisis!

Kristen Lamb September 6, 2024 0 comment

Crisis. Oh, we writers and how we know that word sooo well. I know many of you have been following this blog for quite a few years and THANK YOU. Lord knows we have navigated a crisis…or fifty. In fact, I took a break from blogging this summer to deal with family crises because kids Read more

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