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Self-Examination
Author: Charles O. Goulet
Self-examination sheds light on a writers motives, goals, and aspirations, while self indulgence hide the obvious and absorbs any illumination before it occurs...
Mumblings
Author: Charles O. Goulet
The self-indulgent writer listens only to the mumblings of sycophants, toadies, and flatterers, thus failing to heed the valid criticisms of editors, critiquers, and reviewers...
How New Authors Can Keep Their Manuscripts Coherent
Author: Marvin D. Cloud
In large publishing houses, many manuscripts penned by first-time authors, never make it past the "first reader" who for all practical purposes is a gatekeeper of sorts. This person's job is to weed out manuscripts that do not fit certain established submission criteria...
A Single Technique
Author: Charles O. Goulet
Writing is hard work, and like all hard work, one tries to avoid it if possible. Yet writers feel the urge to write, the need to write, and the inspiration to write, but these are not what produces. The writer must have a technique for writing...
Review In 29 Steps Plus One
Author: Gianfranco Cazzaro
I just finished to read a book. A story for kids (yes, I like them), interesting, told with participation and sometimes irony...
Prolific Writers
Author: Charles O. Goulet
Prolific authors write; they don't just dream about it. A good example is Georges Simenon of Inspector Maigret fame. He writes a book quickly, at one sitting so to speak. The first draft of each chapter is written longhand in a single afternoon...
Which Comes First - Short Story Or Novel?
Author: David B. Silva
A writer writes. Bet you've heard that one before. Or maybe this one: if you want to be a writer, first you write one word, then you write the next...
Writing the Chapters of Your Life: Surprising Insights Using This Special Journaling Technique
Author: Patti Testerman
List-making is a favorite journaling technique and is often used to quickly jot down a numbered record on topics like "my beliefs," "my pet peeves," "the things I hate about myself," or "my strengths." However, there's a special type of list technique that moves beyond a simple itemization and into the realm of significant self-awareness...
Ten Tips to Help You Finish Writing Your Novel
Author: Ann Roscopf Allen
1. Set aside a time to write and keep it sacred. Make this a time when you know you are at your best and feel most creative -- Saturday mornings, late at night, whatever works for you. Make writing a priority and arrange other parts of your schedule around it...
Writers Turn to the Internet for Support, Friendship and Advice
Author: Patricia Gatto and John De Angelis
Riding on the fumes of potential, you take pen to paper or keyboard to monitor. Endless hours of creativity intermingle with apprehension, but your need to write engulfs your spirit. You swim high on the waves of excitement and trudge forward through the waves of doubt. Finally, your manuscript is complete....
A Few Keys to Writing Effective Dialogue
Author: Karyn Follis Cheatham
Every writer expends a great deal of creative energy developing a story line and limning well-balanced prose with evocative sentences. That's what writing is all about, after all. But fiction writers have an additional aspect to creation--effective dialogue. Very few stories, novellas or novels are without dialogue, and for some writers, this can be a stumbling block...
Ten Quick Tips for Inexperienced Writers
Author: V. Berba Velasco Jr., Ph.D
One of the biggest problems that inexperienced writers have is simply knowing how to get started. If you've unsure of your writing skills, then here are some quick tips to help you get started...
Weaving Your Personal Statement Together
Author: Elaine Millward
1. SECRETS TO SUCCESS 2. MAKING A POWERFUL FIRST IMPRESSION 3. AVOID AMBIGUITY ...
Good Writing
Author: T. Jain
Good writing is like sex. Two people are involved - the writer and the reader. Bad sex usually satisfies only one person, most preferably, the writer - the person who leads. Good sex not only satisfies both people, it pleasures them. So, like sex, writing must have all vital points that reach unto this pleasure - movement, foreplay, sensitivity, rhythm and climax...
Writing Personal Statements - Top Tips
Author: Elaine
WRITING THE PERSONAL STATEMENT TO GET INTO UK UNIVERSITY. HOW DO YOU DO IT?...
Writers Block is No Longer a Problem
Author: Ovi Dogar
If you're like me, than I'm sure you're pretty familiar with the well-known writer's block...
Eight Ways To Write Your Novel Faster
Author: Jillanne Kimble
I asked several writers how long it took them to write a novel they wanted published. One woman writer made a frustrated face at me, a couple others just stared at me (their novel wasn't finished yet), and a few just stared...
Can Your Theme Be Proved In Your Story?
Author: Nick Vernon
Creative Writing Tips - Your theme has to be something you can prove in your story - It doesn't have to be a universal truth. This means that your theme doesn't have to be something that happens in real life all the time (providing our logic can accept it, in order for us to believe it)...
Does Each Element of Your Story Further The Theme?
Author: Nick Vernon
Creative Writing Tips - Whichever theme you choose, all the elements, which make up your story, dialogue, conflict, scenes, etc should be written with the theme in mind...
Have You Tested Your Theme Against Your Plot?
Author: Nick Vernon
Creative Writing Tips - How we usually begin the preparation stage in the writing process is?.. |
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