WELCOME TO ANNE BELLOWS BOOKS
The Writing Tips Blog of Many Colors
The new home of my Tumblr blog! Here you can find my curated tips on the writing process. Everything from worldbuilding and character design to story structure, themes, and tackling those tough tropes and archetypes, with a few top ten lists sprinkled about.
Segway Characters (Or when your protagonist knows jack about the story)
Creating Tragedy Through Human Error
How to Make Your Writing Less Stiff Part 3
Bringing Characters Back from the Dead Without Pissing Off Your Audience
Another 5 Character Types the World Needs More of (Part 3)
10 Plot Premises That Never Get Old
Incorporating weather elements into your narrative
On Grimdark (Or conditioning your audience for cynicism)
How to Make Clean Romance Entertaining
Evil MacGuffins (Or an excuse to gush about Lord of the Rings)
Anne's Curated Tips on Worldbuilding Megapost
Villain Power Scaling (It's over 9000!)
Exposition 2: Naming New Characters (Or, The Pronoun Game)
10 More Character Types the World Needs More of
8 Signs your Sequel Needs Work
The Hero with Dead Parents is not Cliché, it’s Necessary
Take A Risk and Don’t Write a Chosen One
Top 10 Narrative Pet Peeves
A Case Against “Redemption = Death”