| 671 | Does Your Theme Contain Character, Conflict, Resolution? Preview: Creative Writing Tips – For a theme to work and the story, which will revolve around the theme, it has to contain three things… 1.Character 2.Conflict 3.Resolution What’s the reason for this? If your theme doesn’t contain these three essential elements, then you won’t be writing a proper short story. It might turn out to be an essay instea... (more) Published By: Nick Vernon Submitted: 24 August,2004 |
| 672 | Does Your Plot Suit Your Characters And Vice-Versa? Preview: Creative Writing Tips – When an idea comes to us for a short story, we either think of a story line first or a character first. Whichever we think of first, and later on build, we have to make sure the plot and the character suit each other. Example one – We think of a story line first. Your story is set in a rural area. A company opens a facto... (more) Published By: Nick Vernon Submitted: 24 August,2004 |
| 673 | Creative Writing Tips - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start? Preview: In the beginning of your story you have to grab your readers’ interest and sustain it till the end. Our hook is our character. Readers keep on reading to find out more about the character. To see what he’ll do in the story; how he’ll solve his problems. What his goals are and whether he’ll achieve them. And because our character is the reason rea... (more) Published By: Nick Vernon Submitted: 24 August,2004 |
| 674 | Is The Theme Reinforced In The Ending? Preview: Creative Writing Tips – By now you should have an idea that your theme has to reach its conclusion just as your story does. But our theme has to do more than reach its conclusion – it has to be reinforced in the end and by doing this, it will strengthen all that we have said in our story. So if we took a theme… ‘Persist and in the end you will ... (more) Published By: Nick Vernon Submitted: 24 August,2004 |
| 675 | Have You Completed A Character Questionnaire? Preview: Creative Writing Tips – Complete a character questionnaire for each of your main characters or even secondary characters that play a vital role in your story. This way you will know your character(s) well before you start writing about them. Fill in as much information about them as possible. Don’t only answer what you will need in your story. T... (more) Published By: Nick Vernon Submitted: 24 August,2004 |
| 676 | Creative Writing Tips - Does The Name You Chose Suit Your Character? Preview: How do you choose a name? Do you put down the first name that pops into your mind? Initially that’s what I used to do, until someone pointed out to me that there are a few things to take into consideration when choosing a name… 1.You Have To Be Comfortable With It We associate names with people we know. If you like a certain name but know and di... (more) Published By: Nick Vernon Submitted: 24 August,2004 |
| 677 | Is The Theme Running Throughout The Story? Preview: Creative Writing Tips – It’s no use coming up with a theme and not using it. Short stories are about a character or characters and about one situation or happening in those characters’ lives. By concentrating on that one thing, our stories are focused. You will need to focus to maintain a level of intensity and sticking to the theme enables us ... (more) Published By: Nick Vernon Submitted: 24 August,2004 |
| 678 | Have You Plotted Your Story Before Writing It? Preview: Creative Writing Tips – The writer, who doesn’t have the time to plot, always finds the time to rewrite. Sound familiar? I’ve been guilty of this too, back in the early days of my writing apprenticeship. I was so eager to get stuck into writing my story that I wouldn’t bother with plotting. Plotting gives you a sense of direction. It’s your ... (more) Published By: Nick Vernon Submitted: 24 August,2004 |
| 679 | 3 Tips to Achieve Your Writing Goals Preview: 1. Make your goals achievable. By achievable, we mean realistic and attainable. You might unconsciously have set a goal even others will have a hard time achieving, even if they had the means and the time to do so. Here's what you can do: break down your goals into small, realistic goals set against reasonable time frames. Oftentimes, you'll ach... (more) Published By: Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ Submitted: 30 August,2004 |
| 680 | The Internet and Tom Robbins are both windows into new realities Preview: These days I go on to the Internet not having any clue as to what is going to grab my interest on that particular day. What is slowly seeping into my subconscious like sludge into the sewer is the idea that I’m probably going to learn something new of interest to my already strange and twisted human existence. Whether the information turns out to ... (more) Published By: Jesse S. Somer Submitted: 30 August,2004 |
| 681 | Sick of the Traditional Publishing Path? Preview: Sick of the Traditional Publishing Path? Judy Cullins ©2004 All Rights Reserved. A book coaching client recently emailed me that she was getting sick of traditional publishing because of so many costly requirements and so little payoff. Do you feel the same way? Fifteen years ago, I worked hard on a 60-page proposal for a top agent and after a y... (more) Published By: Judy Cullins Submitted: 01 September,2004 |
| 682 | The Top 10 Secrets of Successful Authors Preview: The Top 10 Secrets of Successful Authors Judy Cullins ©2004 All Rights Reserved. If you are not a successful author yet, incorporate the following ten secrets: 1. Treat your book as a business. You spend many hours creating a masterpiece to help your audience. It follows then, you need to set up a regular time schedule to market and promote it... (more) Published By: Judy Cullins Submitted: 01 September,2004 |
| 683 | Poetry in a Nutshell Preview: Poetry is more than just rhyming and prose that is in meters and verse. It is an art form. It is something that can not be judged by its cover and can not be critisized to the point where it just "sucks." Poetry is about expression. Poetry expresses the way we feel on a certain subject through imagery and other senses. It helps us deal with our d... (more) Published By: Gary R. Hess Submitted: 04 September,2004 |
| 684 | Free Poetry Contests Preview: Free Poetry contests are a very common happening as of late. They are popping up all over the web, most with slogans like “Win $20,000” or “You can be the next winner.” Now don’t get it wrong… some of these are quite great and can be useful to someone who just wants to have their name in a book, but the idea and how they go about this is a compl... (more) Published By: Gary R. Hess Submitted: 04 September,2004 |
| 685 | Writing fiction can be fun too! Preview: Writing fiction is something that all of us have trouble with at one time or another. The thought of coming up with a story which didn’t even happy can sometimes even result in shock. The best way is to approach this the same way as you would a non-fiction story. First, you want to brainstorm. You don’t have to do this all at once, you might wan... (more) Published By: Gary R. Hess Submitted: 05 September,2004 |
| 686 | Keeping your readers interested when writing non-fiction Preview: Writing non-fiction might be the easiest of all writings, but it’s not always the easiest to keep your readers interested. When writing non-fiction the best thing to do is research, even when the story is about you, research. Readers are generally well educated, and chances are, they will know when something is not quite right. As well, if you ar... (more) Published By: Gary R. Hess Submitted: 06 September,2004 |
| 687 | Profiting From Writing Your Own Ebook Preview: As you might have heard, the Internet is all about information. Millions of people logon to the Internet each day searching for information. They're searching for everything from health and wellness to love and relationships. People crave information and will pay to get the info they want. That's why ebooks are the hottest products on the Interne... (more) Published By: Greg Hayes Submitted: 06 September,2004 |
| 688 | ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF A WRITING COURSE PROPOSAL Preview: At some point in their careers, many writers may teach writing courses, either before a “live” classroom audience or, these days, online. But how does a new teacher develop that first course proposal? What elements should go into it? Sometimes a prospective employer may offer guidelines or forms, and when those are online they help everyone. Chec... (more) Published By: Dr. Erika Dreifus Submitted: 06 September,2004 |
| 689 | A LITERARY POSTCARD FROM SOMEWHERE Preview: (c) Theolonius McTavish 2004. All rights reserved. Seeking a spot of serenity somewhere in the universe, I recently booked a deep-discount dodgy berth on the ‘White Elephant Express Space Shuttle’, to a little known place in a galaxy far, far away. “IT” (otherwise known as HD 36405.b) is not your average “oddball” exo-solar planet made of rock ... (more) Published By: Theolonius McTavish Submitted: 06 September,2004 |
| 690 | Formatting - A Publisher's Point of View Preview: Formatting - A Publisher's Point of View (c) 2004, Jude Wright Do you format and spell check your ads and articles? Speaking from an advertiser's point of view, if you don't, your ads and articles may not get published. And not just by me. I know a lot of publishers who just "delete" those unformatted ads and those articles with tons of misspell... (more) Published By: Jude Wright Submitted: 06 September,2004 |