Another year has passed! In 2015 Mythcreants partnered with Patreon, held a panel at GeekGirlCon, and of course, wrote lots of juicy articles. For your year-end pleasure, here’s the highlights.
Top Ten Most Popular Posts
Ditch These Five Character Archetypes
Choose a different model for crafting your protagonist.
Five Dualities That Can Replace Good and Evil
If you want more complexity than Team Band and Team Good, try these dichotomies.
Lessons From the Terrible Writing of Eragon
Poor word choice and a comical villain hinder this fantastical story's opening.
Four Behaviors Fiction Needs to Stop Glorifying
These bad habits need to stop getting praise from our stories.
Six Emotional Motives for Your Characters
How to give your protagonist a purpose they care about.
How to Create a Rational Magic System
How to make all the pieces of your fantastical magic fit together.
Five Failed Character Arcs
These protagonists plummeted well before they should've peaked.
Three Writing Exercises for Better Characters
Use these tricks to deepen your story's stars.
Six More Character Archetypes to Ditch
Ditch these character models to ensure your story won't age like already-spoiled milk.
Six Characters Who Should Have Died
The Reaper should've been more aggressive in pursuing these characters.
Blogger Favorites
Seven bloggers wrote at least two articles this year. I badgered each one until they told me which piece they liked the best.
The Why & How of Second Person
How to experiment with this oft-maligned but intriguing perspective.
Six Consequences of High Magic
How the world would change if some could bend physics with their minds.
Matriarchies, Patriarchies, and Beyond
How your writing can do better at gender rep, however your story's society handles it.
Crafting Plausible Maps
How to build your world's geography—and no square mountain ranges, please.
How to Personify the Seven Deadly Sins
How to show these moral taboos in your story.
Using Conflict to Revive Your Story Game
Four ways your collaborative campaign might flounder—and how to avoid them.
Why Social Justice Is Intrinsic to Storytelling
Storytellers are responsible for making positive change with their tales. Here's why.
Happy New Year to all our wonderful readers and patrons! Thanks for your encouragement and support.
Thanks for this . . . as a latecomer to the blog, it’s helpful seeing stuff like this.
. . . and now I want to write in second person.
You realize that second person is a legitimate writing perspective. You know it tends to work best in shorter formats. You go write some.
Will do . . . but right now I just started my entry for the “No shit, there I was” submission call . . . hard to do that in second person.
But, I will do a SP piece this week. Might even share it.
It will be fun adding yet another tool to my sure-fire rejection arsenal.