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What Motivates Your Villain?

Resources March 16, 2022March 12, 2023 Guilliean Pacheco 0 Comments

Today, we’re going to talk about motivation. Motivation is what keeps you going. Motivation is what keeps you going in the face of adversity. And motivation is what keeps your villains going, too. Motivation can be a powerful thing. There are lots of reasons the villains in our stories do the things they do. Sometimes […]

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How to Ensure Your Character Moves

Resources March 9, 2022March 7, 2023 Guilliean Pacheco 0 Comments

Movement is a complex topic but excellent practice. To keep a reader engaged, you must keep them turning pages. In other words, you need to ensure that your character — and other characters — move around. Movement could be physical, but it could be an emotional state of mind too. Even if you’ve wrapped up […]

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What is Your Story’s Central Conflict?

Resources March 2, 2022March 12, 2023 Guilliean Pacheco 0 Comments

The central conflict is the driving force behind your story. It drives the plot forward, and it acts as a key to understanding what you’re trying to say as the author. You may have seen a version of this table in the past. The conflict is what will drive your story, both for your reader […]

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How Word Counts Influence Your Form

Resources February 23, 2022March 7, 2023 Guilliean Pacheco 0 Comments

I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. I’m not sure what age I started to write down my thoughts, but my first memories go back to my early childhood. I remember writing my first fanfiction when I was about 13, and it involved a girl group based on the Spice Girls—no shame […]

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Kill Your Darlings

Resources February 16, 2022March 7, 2023 Guilliean Pacheco 0 Comments

Developing our characters is what we do as writers, but they can also be trouble. Maybe you created a particular character to be so annoying that you never want to see them again. Perhaps they’re so crucial to your story that you can’t even think about killing them. But, what is the best way to […]

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Seeing the Negative Approach

Resources February 9, 2022March 7, 2023 Guilliean Pacheco 0 Comments

Today’s blog goes hand in hand with last week’s post. One of my goals with these guides is to think about different ways to look at story development. You put your characters through the wringer in every way! Despite what some writers may claim, there is no such thing as a “right way” to approach […]

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Season 2, Episode 028: My First Time

City of Writers Radio February 8, 2022 Guilliean Pacheco 0 Comments

Guilliean reads her creative non-fiction piece of the same name. Stream it and read along with the text! The first time I had a transformative bowl of killer ramen was the day after my first date with my boyfriend. Being American, all I knew was Maruchan. However, my genetic disposition for heart disease put the […]

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When the World Laughs

Resources February 2, 2022March 7, 2023 Guilliean Pacheco 0 Comments

Every writer has a style, a personality that influences the way they write. Some may be fast and crude, others reserved and timid, and some may be witty. Some may even be all of the above! I took my pursuit of knowledge further and sat for my Masters of Fine Arts in Writing. It’s a […]

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Unbound Feet by Judy Yung x A Larger Memory by Ronald T. Takaki

Book and Movie Reviews February 1, 2022March 13, 2023 Guilliean Pacheco 0 Comments

Happy Lunar New Year one and all. May the Year of the Tiger bless you and your family this year. In celebration of this event, I’m sharing a review of the books Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco by Judy Yung and A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity […]

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Season 2, Episode 027: Effra

City of Writers Radio February 1, 2022 Guilliean Pacheco 0 Comments

The joy of pushing myself to learn how to edit sound bites as part of this one-woman show has me playing around with A.I. again. I wrote this “script” as a one-off extra credit creative writing piece for my Intro to Economics class for undergrad. I polished it up and realized how difficult it is […]

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