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How to Write a Short Story
Author: Mr. Mark S. Gonney
Everybody knows writing a story is not easy. Like the drama or the poem, it is imaginative literature that should appeal to the emotions of the readers. Since it communicates the writer's interpretation of reality, there must be an artistic use of language to signify human experience...
Personal Journaling - Strategies To Make It Easy
Author: Vera Raposo
Recently I was watching the Oprah show and it was about doing something really great in someones life. Was it buying them a special gift? Or taking them out? Not really...
Screenwriting - The Value of Structure
Author: Kal Bishop
Structure in the form of frameworks, work processes and goals enhances creative output:...
Screenwriting - The Lone Wolf Story Structure Template
Author: Kal Bishop
Story Structure Templates are the fastest way to write screenplays. One of the most well known and often used templates, which goes beyond three and four act structure, is the Hero's Journey. Arguably, all stories are a variation of this template and the Lone Wolf is one of the most successful of those variations....
Screenwriting and Screenwriters - beyond Syd Field
Author: Kal Bishop
Without denigrating the work and contribution of Syd Field to the art of screenwriting, it is about time many screenwriters moved on...
The ENTP Inventor Writes A Novel
Author: John Anderson
People familiar with the Myers-Briggs Personality test know that the writer is the INFJ. This person is introverted, intuitive, feelings-oriented and judgmental...
Overcoming Writers Block
Author: Matt Keegan
Do you suffer from writer's block? Is there a pending project you are putting off because you lack the inspiration to even get it started? You certainly are not alone. At various times you will go through extended periods of energetic writing as well as lengthy dry spells...
7 Journaling Tips
Author: Doreene Clement
Set your journal or diary where you will see it everyday, i.e., on your nightstand, at your desk, where you have coffee. This will help to remind you to journal...
Three 30 Day Journaling Ideas
Author: Doreene Clement
Here are 3 journaling or diary ideas that can contribute to, and enhance your life. You can use a notebook, The 5 Year Journal, a blank book, even a computer...
Local Knowledge: Background and Historical Setting in Novels
Author: Trish
You're writing a story set in your local city, but one hundred years in the past. How can you recreate the feel of the past in your words of the present? Local knowledge, that's how. And how do you get this sort of knowledge when your characters were walking around one hundred years ago and you're situated well and truly in the 21st century?...
Write Again! - The Art Of The Written Letter
Author: Sara Duggan
Remember the days when we wrote with pen and paper? We took time and thought into each note written. There wasn't email, text messaging, cell phones, or instant messaging. Don't get me wrong these advances are great and useful. I have even succumbed to their wiles...
Turbo Charge Your Career! Write And Produce Your Own Stage Play!
Author: Beverly Aarons
Have you ever wondered how you can adapt your screenplay or novel into a stage play? Do you have a story that you yearn to see on stage? Or, maybe you're an actor frustrated by the barrage of fruitless auditions and dream of performing before a live audience...
Mama Dont Allow No Fighting in Your Writing
Author: Malcolm R. Campbell
When you sit down to write a steamy romance, a spine-tingling horror story, or an action-packed adventure, lock the door. The last thing you need is your mother, father, coach, English teacher or pastor reading over your shoulder and giving you advice...
About Writing
Author: Michael LaRocca
Here's everything I know about improving your writing,publishing it electronically and in print, and promoting itafter the sale...
Learning How To Write
Author: Michael LaRocca
As a student of Spanish, my goal was to think in Spanish. Skipthe word-by-word translation so I'd have the necessary speed tospeak and listen. I know words in Spanish that I'd be hardpressed to translate. Usually profanity, I confess. Chingow!...
Writer School?
Author: Michael LaRocca
Here's something from my mailbag. "Dear Michael, do you need todo good in school if you want to be a writer? I stink at schooland all my friends laugh at me when I tell them I want to write,but I'm serious." Followed by a sentence or two of "I need yourwords to encourage me" or some such nonsense...
How to Break In and Succeed as a Screenwriter
Author: Brian Konradt
Screenwriting is a competitive trade. To distinguish yourself as a prize-winning writer you need to master organizational skills, take creative risks, and learn how best to present your final product...
Childrens Stories - The Essentials
Author: Ann Harth
There is no specific formula for children's fiction. There are, however, some necessities. Whether you are writing a humorous picture book or a coming-of-age novel for young adults, you will need: a main character, a setting, a problem or goal and a satisfying ending...
Hero's Journey - The Herald
Author: Andrew John
Beyond three and four act story structure, lies the Hero's Journey. The Hero's Journey is the most usable story structure consisting of at least 106 stages and the template for successful contemporary stories, from Star Wars to Al Pacino Scarface to The Incredibles to War of the Worlds to The Dirty Dozen to Midnight Cowboy...
Six Tips for Creating More Lifelike Story Characters
Author: Dorothy Zjawin
Working on my first humorous novel, I started with a single character. I followed suggestions in writers' reference books for developing story characters. Then, still dissatisfied with my results, I began to explore other ways to make my characters more lifelike and included those strategies below...
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