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  1. The Beginners Guide to Interiority
  2. Characters Part 3: Archetypes 2
  3. Adult Steps 4 - Turn Off Your Internal Editor While Writing Your First Draft
  4. Characters Part 2: Archetypes 1
  5. Revision Part 2: How to Find and Deal With Plot-Holes in Your Story
  6. How to Revise Your First Draft: Part 1
  7. How to Persuade Your Reader to Suspend their Disbelief?
  8. Adult Steps 3 - Fill Your Story with Conflict and Tension
  9. Adult Steps 2 - Write the Last Chapter First!
  10. Adult Steps 1 - What Do You Write In? Or, to put it another way, what software do you use to write your novel in?
  11. Who Are Your Target Audience, and How Do You Find Them
  12. First draft? Messy draft, vomit draft, or what?
  13. A Guide To Outlining
  14. How to Write Your First Draft
  15. Characters Part 1: Who They Are and How to Build Them
  16. Toddler Steps 7 - Start Calling Yourself A Writer
  17. Genre Conventions, Tropes, Common Themes, Settings, Characters, and Plot Devices of Some Genres: Part 2
  18. Genre Conventions, Tropes, Common Themes, Settings, Characters, and Plot Devices of Some Genres: Introduction.
  19. Toddler Steps 6 - Do Your Research
  20. Genre Conventions, Tropes, Common Themes, Settings, Characters, and Plot Devices of Some Genres: Part 1
  21. Toddler Steps 5 - Eliminating Anything That Will Be A Distraction So You Can Stay Focused
  22. Toddler Steps 4 - Creating an Unbreakable Deadline
  23. Toddler Steps 3 - Setting a Writing Schedule
  24. Toddler Steps 2 - Build Your Outline
  25. Toddler Steps 1 - Break the Project into Small Pieces
  26. Baby Steps 4 - Your Premise
  27. Baby Steps 3 - The Power of Your Idea
  28. Baby Steps 2 - Assemble Your Writing Tools
  29. Baby Steps 1 - Set Up Your Writing Space
  30. What is 'genre'?
  31. The Difference Between Fiction, and Nonfiction