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The great novelist Isabelle Allende says, ‘Show up, show up, show up… and then the muse shows up.’ But what if you do exactly that,

You’re sitting in the car, or walking in the park, or cooking dinner, when suddenly it strikes you – the idea! You race to your

Dramatic stakes are what your characters stand to gain or to lose, what they risk if they do or don’t do that thing they want