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Weakness: Blood in the Water & Narcissist Sharks

Kristen Lamb May 18, 2022 0 comment

Weakness is inherent to the human condition. No one is always strong all the time and in every way. Last post, we dove into the deep dark waters of the narcissist. Namely, we explored one of their more common tools for manipulation—gaslighting. Obviously, I recommend going back to check out the post. But, for brevity’s […]

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Gaslighting: Narcissists & Tampering with Reality

Kristen Lamb May 13, 2022 0 comment

‘Gaslighting’ is a term I’ve used for YEARS. Oddly, however, until recently, almost nobody knew what the heck I was talking about. I would have to explain about the movie from the 1940s, based off a 1938 play Gas Light. Anyway, it would just turn into a rambling conversation almost as awkward as when I […]

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Mommie Dearest: The Mother Wound & Fiction

Kristen Lamb May 3, 2022 0 comment

Over 40 countries have a day to celebrate ‘mother’ and ‘mother figures’ with some variation of Mother’s Day. While millions of people will send flowers and gifts and take their moms, grandmothers, aunts, etc. out for a fancy day, other folks might struggle…a lot. People can feel a wide variety of emotions when it comes […]

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Small Steps & The Value of Simply SHOWING UP

Kristen Lamb April 20, 2022 0 comment

Small steps are the most essential for achieving anything in life, yet they’re also the most underestimated. They are too easy to overlook or dismiss. Unlike when we were kids, no one is handing out stickers or scented erasers to reward us for a day well done. There’s no list on the wall showcasing the […]

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Fiction Filler: Bloated Writing Makes Readers Sick

Kristen Lamb April 14, 2022 0 comment

Fiction filler is like fillers in food. It makes a little bit of good stuff go a lot farther, but at what cost? How much of this pink slime prose can we really get away with before readers feel ill? Almost everyone has padded some form of writing—a school paper, essays, presentations, resumes, etc. In […]

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Memory: Shape Characters & Sharpen Conflict

Kristen Lamb April 5, 2022 0 comment

Memory is a tricky thing. We like to believe our brains are like a video camera recording every detail of every event with perfect precision. Or at least I’m guilty of believing this…especially when at odds with someone. But, aside from memory making us martyrs, it serves many other useful purposes in life and in […]

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SEO: The Key to Working Smarter not Harder

Kristen Lamb March 24, 2022 0 comment

Um…HUH? SEO, for those who might not know, stands for Search Engine Optimization. And right now, many of you might be like, “Well, great. THAT makes it clear as mud.” Today, we’re going to talk a little about search engines, how they work, and ways search engine optimization can make our content work harder so […]

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Arc: How Characters Grow and Change Organically

Kristen Lamb March 10, 2022 0 comment

Arc is critical in stories. How do the characters change? Who changes and how? What is an arc and do we need a protractor? In my last post, Personality Traits: Creating Dimensional Characters, we talked about how useful personality tests can be for character creation and balancing the party. Ideally, we want to have a […]

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Personality Traits: Creating Dimensional Characters

Kristen Lamb March 4, 2022 0 comment

Personality traits make for not only a fascinating study, but have continued to be at the heart of spirited debate since probably the dawn of time. What makes up our personality? Where does it come from? Is it malleable? What forms our personalities? Nature, nurture or both? ***Apologies for the delay between blogs. Hubby and […]

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Branding & Attention: Busy Brains in a Busy World

Kristen Lamb January 21, 2022 0 comment

Branding, at least for authors, is a relatively new concept. Selling books was SO much ‘easier’ before the digital age, when life ran at a comparable snail-hooked-on-Valium pace. Or it at least seems that way. If you need to remove those rose-tinted nostalgia glasses, I do recommend reading my post The Ugly Truth of Publishing […]

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