Tag: conflict

by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky August 29, 2018 0

How does this ‘conflict, not goals’ thing work anyway?

by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Recently I wrote a post about character needing conflict, not goals. I received a great question fromContinue Reading

by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky August 1, 2018 0

Story Structure Writing

Forget the Goal – Your character just needs conflict

by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Everyone has seen them – the pithy pieces of writing advice that can fit on a 940×780 pixelContinue Reading

by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky July 15, 2014 2

Character My Writing Journey Story Engineering

SWOT your Antagonist: Driving the middle of your story with well-rounded characters

by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Ah, ‘the middle’ – bemoaned the world over. Middle child syndrome causing siblings to feel overlooked and resentful; middleContinue Reading

Mikhaeyla Kopievsky is an Australian speculative fiction author. She is the author of the Divided Elements series and Tasmanian Gothic. She was longlisted for the 2019 EJ Brady Short Story Competition, and her debut novel, Resistance, was a semi-finalist in Hugh Howey’s inaugural SPSF Competition.

Born in Sydney, Mikhaeyla now lives in the Hunter Valley with her husband, son, two rescue dogs, four Australorp chooks, a hive of cantankerous bees, and the occasional herd of beautiful Black Angus steers.

When she is not writing or reading, Mikhaeyla enjoys cooking with the produce harvested from her kitchen garden, going to the beach, stargazing, and training to be a ninja.

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