The Science of Writing

All the advice, craft, and updates you can choke down. Pretentious too.

Career 7
Craft 5
Process 4
Psychology 3
Budgeting 2
Characters 2
Time Management 2
Description 1
My Story 1
Sociology 1
Statistics 1
Worldbuilding 1

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Attachment Theory and Character Backstory

Learn how attachment theory can help you plan your character backgrounds, including how relationships form and shape personality and behavior.

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How to use Psychology to Write Better Descriptions

How the Primacy/Recency Effect and other Psych tools can help you write memorable descriptions.

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How to use Psychology to Plan Character Arcs

Learn how confirmation bias, the above-average bias, cognitive dissonance, and reinforcement/punishment can make your characters grow into the heroes and monsters you need them to be.