Get inside your characters’ heads

This is hard to do, and it takes time, but it pays off with stellar story. 

When you’re blocking out your scenes (we talk in detail about scene blocking at the Wolves level and up), BEFORE you even start writing them, get inside each of your character’s heads and act it out from their POV as if you were them, so literally...

GET UP AND WALK AROUND, AND MOVE AND TALK LIKE THEM. 

Do everything you can to visualize how it would look for them—what’s happening in the scene. Then switch to the next...