by Sandra Haven | Mar 14, 2017 | How to Write a Novel
Excited about your writing career? About expanding your story’s potential? Yet after writing, maybe publishing, even marketing a book, you realize that’s just ONE book. And a career author writes LOTS of books. Which means tomorrow… You’ll face...
by Mary Jaksch | Jul 7, 2012 | Enjoy Creative Exercises
If you want to try a fun way to flex your creative muscles, please read on. Welcome to Scene Stealers. Here’s how Scene Stealers writing prompts work: We set the scene You steal it, make it your own, and Share your creation in the comments section It’s as simple as...
by Lisa Kilian | Jul 14, 2011 | Fiction
Whatever you think, you need an editor. There comes a time in every writer’s life when the plot is adequately twisted, the characters are adequately developed, and all the typos have been eliminated with a laser gun. You think. Actually, you’re not sure if any of that...
by Larry Brooks | Jul 7, 2009 | Fiction, Tips
If you want to see a room full of writers go ballistic, right up there with a lynch mob on the hysteria scale, tell them there really is a formula for writing a novel. A list of elements and criteria that define the nature of the work. They probably already know that...
by Al | Dec 20, 2008 | Fiction, How to Write Stories
A common mistake as a new writers is the tendency not to fully use your imagination to tell the story. First time writers usually are not comfortable with letting loose the creativity needed to make the story dynamic. They tend to have uninteresting characters, a less...