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The Ultimate Guide to Writing Complex Character Flaws: Why a Flawless Hero Will Kill Your Story

Character Flaws in fiction writing. Framed digital artwork showing a character torn apart by his character flaws.

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhy character flaws are the keys to creating complex characters and other fiery secrets from The Flamekeeper’s forging-the-fire-of-fiction vault. Greetings, Fiction Igniters! 🔥 Pull up a scorched quill, settle into your molten writer’s chair, and let’s have ourselves a blazing little bonfire chat. You ever read a story where the hero is so good, so […]

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Top 10 Things I Learned About Writing From Emilia Pérez

Framed digital artwork featuring an abstract mid-century graphic design of a fragmented film reel unraveling over a kitschy, distorted Mexico with neon-lit deserts and a faceless director tossing a script into a bonfire.

Reading Time: 7 minutesGreetings, Fiction Igniters! Gather around the bonfire, because today we’re talking about one of the most controversial movies in recent memory: Emilia Pérez. This film is getting all sorts of awards and it just received 13 Academy Award nominations (the same amount as Oppenheimer!), and is one of the frontrunners to win best picture. Yet,

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