Your Creativity Spark: Passion to Write
Your Creativity Spark: Passion to Write – How To Write the Future, podcast episode 51 “Write with all your senses and let your mind wander far and deep and into the past. Or far...
Your Creativity Spark: Passion to Write – How To Write the Future, podcast episode 51 “Write with all your senses and let your mind wander far and deep and into the past. Or far...
Improve your fiction writing skills faster with “deliberate practice,” a well-known practice used by athletes and musicians for years.
No need to dread the blank page any longer. Check out these tips on the writing process by fantasy and poetry writer, Hugh Tipping.
Today we welcome a new guest writer to Writer’s Fun Zone, Lucy Reed who is stopping by to chat with us about “Freelance Writing Tips for Students.” Enjoy! *** Freelance writing is the perfect...
To get writing tomorrow, be nice to your future self and follow these tips from writing coach and teacher, Catharine Bramkamp.
by Guest Contributor · Published December 16, 2022 · Last modified December 6, 2022
To gain attention for your novels, try blogging – a powerful marketing resource. Here’s some basic misconceptions and advice to get started.
Having a uniform to use when you are writing can help you prepare your creative space and put you in the mood for writing.
Writing is expected to be difficult and difficulty is often idolized as necessary. Rather than question the process, we should welcome the ease and expertise we’ve developed.
A famous author once said that every book should contain a love story. Now, that author might not have thought that the love story needed a sex scene, but many novelists writing in every genre do include sex scenes in their books. And there’s a problem with that.
Halloween is on its way; time to get out Boney, our life-size skeleton decoration. He’s been around for several years now. His skull fell off his neck, but we repaired him and now he’s sitting in a fold-out chair on our porch, waving at passers-by, his skeleton hand high in the air.
I don’t know if you’re like me, but watching all the disasters taking place recently has left me feeling forlorn for the loss of life and property, and less than positive about the future.
I wrote one blog on the tools one can use for productivity before at and all of those tools still stand. They’re all great. What I found was that I used too many at once and that didn’t end up working well for me as I spent more time inputting and checking off than was necessary.
Over the summer I’ve been reading a lot (haven’t we all?) and I’ve realised that my reading has changed a little as I’ve started to write more and with the hindsight of what I’ve learned along the way.
We’ve all heard the first commandment for writers: never open your book with backstory. And the second commandment? No infodumps. And the third? Sprinkle that backstory throughout your book.
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