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Creating Mood
This article will tell you everything you need to know about creating mood. There is also a short teaser to help illustrate how mood influences the story you are writing.
Bring Characters To Life
We don’t just read books for the plots, but for the characters. We are following their lives, listening to their conversations, and even intruding on their most intimate moments. We befriend them and sympathize with what they are going through.
For Fiction Writers: Create a Lively Setting in Three Easy Steps
Take your fiction writing to the next level by creating a stronger setting with these three easy steps. You’ll be amazed! Read an abundance of articles on writing at the Creative Competitor….
Writing for Personal and Professional Expression
Writing must come from the heart — Authors have to really enjoy and believe in what they do to be successful. This article shares personal inspirations and insights on how to get started in writing a book.
Writing Craft: Great Battle Scenes
Are you writing epic fantasy, historical or science fiction? Here are some techniques for creating powerful, exciting, realistic battle scenes.
Affirmations for Writers: 3 Self-Talk Secrets
Want to improve your writing, and your life? Use affirmations. Affirmations are positive statements which we make to ourselves. They’re a form of autosuggestion. We’re affected by suggestions everywhere we go every day, both from other people, and from powerful advertising.
Flexing Novel-Writing Muscles
I was reading an article in our local small town newspaper recently about a high school student who was making significant wins in swimming competition. The article explained that this young lady swims two hours every day at her high school pool. Then a couple days a week, she travels twenty miles to where her coach is located for more intense, concentrated training. It’s obvious this young student’s mind and her body are toned and honed for swimming. She probably dreams about swimming. As novelists, we too should be constantly looking for ways to flex and tone our writing muscles. This might include our powers of concentration, our skills for keen observation, our wild flights of imagination, and so on.
Creative Writing – How To Use The Power Of Your Imagination
Running out of imagination? Wondering how to get more more ideas? How to increase the power of your imagination to generate ideas and write better stories.creative writing,story,imagination,creative writing tips,writing help,becoming a writer,writer
Three Cover Design Secrets for Drawing in Readers
Great book covers compel readers to grab and buy the book. This feat is a veritable art form in itself. Often, either authors take this matter for granted and spend little effort to ensure it looks artfully compelling, or worse, they take matters into their own hands and do the artwork themselves. This would be okay if they really know what they are doing. Often, the DIY approach proves devastating to first-time authors without enough book cover art experience.
Authors Who Seduce
Authors are masters of illusion. Readers are their willing prisoners. This is what every reader hopes for. He/she surrenders to the fantasy, and reality is blurred so artistically, the reader is unaware of the seduction.
How to Write a Series of Short Stories
One of the most lucrative ways to make a living writing short fiction is to write a series of them. Many readers don’t like buying one story on its own, but by bundling a few together, especially if they all build on each other creating a series, is a good way to get people to buy your work. But where do you start? That’s easy because this article will go over some tips on how to write a series of short stories so that you can start your fiction empire.
How to Write a Psychological Thriller
There are many different types of thriller stories ranging from action adventure, mystery, crime, courtroom, and even paranormal. But there is one genre of this type that is different from the rest because it focuses more on the emotional aspects of the story, rather than the action. And that type of story is the psychological thriller.
It’s All in the Title and the Blurb!
The article explains the importance of selecting a title and providing a supporting blurb, which will entice potential readers to purchase a book. The title and blurb are the book’s equivalent to an advertisement, showcasing the product.
How and Where to Offer Unsold Internet Articles
By Honey Margaret Wood As writers, we have all got a stock of articles that for some reason or another were never paid for. They clutter up our folders and remind us of bad paying clients we have come across during the course of our virtual writing lives. There are several ways to make these [...]
Are Short Stories Becoming Popular Again?
With the rise of digital publishing, it seems that the humble short story is indeed becoming popular again with readers. Short stories lend themselves to e-readers well, since most people use their Kindles and Nooks while travelling to and from work, relaxing in a coffee shop in their lunch breaks, or snuggling into their pillow just before bed. All of these times are limited to how long the reader has, so being able to finish a story before switching off the lights has great appeal.
How To Make Your Amazon Book Rank Soar With Free Book Hashtags and Kindle Select
By Douglas Glenn Clark Many readers and authors would laugh if I announced, “My book has broken into the Top 80,000 best-selling books at Amazon.com.” Yet that’s what I did. I also updated that announcement three weeks later when my book fell to 278,000 and then broke into the Top 10,000. You see, my ranking [...]
5 Facts About Daily Blogging
I started a daily personal blog about my life in December 2009. I didn’t know if I could keep it up. More than 800 blogs have been posted. I’ve missed one! These are 5 of the top things that I’ve learnt…
Want to Be a Writer? These Tips Will Help to Make Your Dream Come True
Many people want to be writers and you may be one of them. In order to make your dream occupation a reality, you need to have a plan. You also need to work on this plan constantly. These tips from a long-term writer may also help you.
Not All Reviews Are Equal
So, it goes like this: You finish your novel (or short story or poem – substitute your own medium here), and decide to put it ‘out there’ for feedback. Maybe you post some chapters on your blog, maybe you submit to a peer review website, maybe you’re really brave and you send it out to an agent, or even pay for a professional critique.
Write What You Can Know Well – 10 Internet Sources for Research
There are almost countless sources of information available via the internet. Sure, one must exercise care when using these materials, but the same may be said for every research source. Some are more reliable than others; some require additional fact checking. I present ten categories.
Writing Rituals – Does It Work? An Honest Review
“Writing Rituals” is a productivity guide for commercial writers and copywriters. By using it’s 5 Writing Rituals, the author, Nick Usborne, claims “you can turn things around very quickly, and achieve a dramatic increase in your productivity. This means you’ll get more writing done faster, and earn more money, every day, every week, every month and every year.”
Writing Multiple Articles Per Day The Effortless Way
The other day, I got an interesting e-mail from a fellow online article author. He was not engaged in the selling trinkets or online article marketing, rather he was producing ideas and concepts, along with a little creative writing, and getting this information out to the world. What a noble cause indeed, a kindred spirit I might add.
10 Ways to Screw Up Your Blog From the Start
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Co-Authorship: Weighing the Pros and Cons
Common wisdom dictates ‘two heads are better than one’. Working with someone has many pros: you can do less of the work, having someone else invest in your work takes away a lot of loneliness, and with a co-author, there’s a chance you won’t both get writer’s block at the same time.
Top Mobile Apps for Creative Writers
If William Shakespeare were alive today he might say, “If apps be the food of creative inspiration…download them”!
I might be mucking up words from one of the best know writers on the planet, but I’m just having a little fun with words. As a writer, it’s our obligation to have fun with words—when we write, scribble down inspired plot lines, and even record a few words of inspiration for that next best-selling novel.
Grammar Don’t Matter (And Other Online Writing Myths)
You’ve read it before, probably on multiple occasions: Perfect grammar is less important when writing online content than it is for other types of writing.
Not so.
Grammar does matter.
Writing A Comedy Script
In theory, writing a comedy script is easy; as a matter, of fact, we can apply that to writing a script of any kind, too. Writing anything is easy, period. However, when you start to apply qualifiers such as “funny” in front of the words “comedy script,” then the difficulty level obviously increases to the point that it can be very hard.
Create the Writing Life You Want
Ah, writing. For those of us who love to play with words, it’s like standing in front of a smorgasbord, agonizing over which delicacies to try. You can potter about with your writing as a thoroughly delightful hobby
From Wannabe to Writer
This article explains to the wannabe writer how to actually become a writer. It shows that you need no special tools, just to sit down and write. It also shows how
emotion can bring a piece of writing alive for the reader.
Jam on the Breaks When You Start Getting Off Topic
There are times when you start writing and you just love the topic. Because of your enjoyment of it, you may find yourself getting more in depth than you planned and
possibly even moving off topic.
