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Articles about fiction writing tips (0-50 of 282)
- The Difference Between An Essay And An Article
By: Ray Mason | - There is effectively very little difference between an essay and an article.
One major difference to note is that an essay usually develops some form of argument and therefore begins with an introduction/background. It has a number of intermediary paragraphs in which the argument or issues are discussed and then finally arrives at a conclusion to express the views of the author.
Whereas an article does not need develop an issue or argument or even display a point of view. It ...
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- 6 Easy Tips For Writing Better Fiction
By: Jennifer Carsen | - You could write a book - and many have - on what to do and not do when writing fiction. We're not going to get into that degree of detail here, but there are lots of little things you can do that make your writing exponentially better. Here are 6 to start with:
1. Stick with "said." As in, "'I like pickles,' she said." "Say" and "said" are almost always much better options than anything else you could stick in there, such as "enthused," "gushed," or "opined." You can throw one of th ...
Tags: writing, fiction, dialogue, adverb, character
- Edgar Allan Poe's Unity Of Impression - How To Write A Short Story
By: marciano guerrero | - When I sat down to write my mini story on "Alzheimer's" I pretty much had on mind Edgar Allan Poe's writing principle: Unity of impression. To bind the story together I used an object (a 100-burnt out light bulb) that would mirror and symbolize human life: that it eventually burns out.
Poe held that a good work has to be short enough to be read in one sitting. If it requires two sittings, the unity of impression and effect is damaged. That is why he was so critical of Milton's long ...
Tags: alzheimer's, edgar allan poe, fiction writing, fiction writing tips, writing short stories
- Writing For Dummies - How To Shuffle The Writing Desk
By: marciano guerrero | - People often ask me, "Where do you get your ideas for your stories and articles from?" My stock answer is from my daily activities, which include really humdrum, mundane acts that everyone performs.
My first act in the morning is to make a fresh pot of coffee. As I do this chore I find myself thinking about a myriad things that have happened in the past, things that I will handle during the day, or things that I may contemplate doing in the future. This is a delightful task. Since n ...
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- 10 Writing Septets....
By: shaikh asif | - The urge to write fiction seems God given for some, a learned skill for others.
One thing is certain it requires practice and a particular mindset. But, if youre a beginner, where do you start?
The following 10 tips will help kick-start your writing habit, whether youre a complete novice, or perhaps a pro who has lost their way!
1. Step Away From the Car, Sir.
Slightly detach yourself from your surroundings. Stop participating and begin observing. In social ...
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- The Art Of Writing In The World
By: ansaar | - Very few people can avoid writing on a daily basis. Of course, some people really enjoy writing, others do it out of necessity. Writing, essentially, involves placing a series of words together to convey a certain message or meaning. To write in its basic form is not a difficult task. Some people are natural writers, others find it a lot harder and have to work at the process in order to convey what they are trying to say. An individual normally does writing.
For certain individuals, writ ...
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- Helpful Tips To Getting Started On Your Novel
By: Joe Picariello | - Writing has always come naturally to me, but there are elements of the writing process that I struggle with. There must be other aspiring writers who have similar problems, so let's talk about the most basic elements you will need to make your story or novel come to life.
The most important thing, first and foremost, is story. You need a story, or at least a basic outline of this. Without a story, you have nothing. Your characters will be stumbling around with nothing to do and no p ...
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- Writing Is Communication Powerful Way Of Success
By: shiv12 | - Whether you are working for a small business, large corporation, or are a student, there are numerous sources that you can turn to for help with writing. Businesses need to be able to effectively communicate with their customers, their employees and their potential customers. Effective verbal communication is equally important, but nonverbal communication in the form of copy writing, article writing, press release writing, and more requires a certain level of expertise and experience. The typica ...
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- Writing - Understanding The Difference Between Voice And Tone
By: Robert L. Bacon | - One of the best ways to understand something is to provide different treatments of the subject. Thomas Mann's eight stories in the popular Vintage imprint with DEATH IN VENICE as the lead title is ideal to work from, since each story is written in a different voice. Yet his masterpiece, THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, depicts his voice as a separate entity unto its own--and one could say this was Mann's true voice.
While the short stories in the DEATH IN VENICE Vintage compendium enable a ...
Tags: writing a novel, tone, voice, creative writing, writing a book, fiction writing, writer, write,
- Seven Useful Thesis Writing Tips
By: Daniel Millions | - The thesis of a paper is one of the most significant elements of the body of work. A thesis is a specific statement that provides an opinion about a given subject and it informs the reader of what it intends to prove in the rest of the paper. The following are some useful and crucial thesis writing tips.
Thesis writing tip #1 Research: In order to write a successful thesis, you should do extensive research on the topic you are writing about and educate yourself about all points of ...
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- A Guide To Effective Promotional Plans
By: Donald Mitchell | - A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
--Malcolm Bradbury
We decided to put our knowledge of breakthrough processes to good use to ensure that our latest book would reach best-seller reading levels. At the time of its publication, sales of 50,000 copies normally constituted a best seller. Based on Peter Drucker's information, about 5,000 people would read some part of those 50,000 copies. About 500 peo ...
Tags: article marketing, non-fiction writing, marketing, public relations, readers, competitive advantage
- Three Steps To Making You A Better Writer
By: Sebastian Marders | - Much has been said about how creative writing helps in the development of well being. Much has been written about the importance and role of creative writing - the personal, social, and political aspects that can be found in it. But how can one really become an effective and efficient practitioner of the craft?
For aspiring and neophyte writers, creative writing is not impossible to master. Just having the passion and determination to come up with a good piece could give go a long ...
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- The Rules Of Story Structure
By: Curtis Foster | - Whether you are writing a short piece of flash fiction or a full-length novel, you will be telling a fictitious story. All story ideas will evolve from the basic elements of story fiction. This does not necessarily mean that you will strictly adhere to the formula of writing a story. However, you will have to at least address these structural issues, and explain to yourself why an element is present or absent. The most basic understanding of fiction is simulated reality. Compared with ...
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- Absurdity Of Absurd: Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Go Dot
By: newgensolutions8 | - What does Absurd mean ?When I searched the glossaries ,I found the word to be out of harmony(1).But yet the definitions trying hard to explain the term , just to end in total Absurdity (assuming for a while that we know the meaning of the word),as they talk in total sense, the nonsense about it and of course that means they fail(in their attempt ).But considering the term to be linked with literature (and other forms of art too!),when I searched for more I came across the lines ...
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- Write A Book, Be An Expert
By: Joan Clout-Kruse | - "Write a book and get recognized as an expert." How many times have you heard that? Hundreds? Thousands? It is a fact that people acknowledge you as the expert when you have put your knowledge in print. It could be a book, a column, a booklet or a white paper that has been published. If people find what you wrote helpful to them, you become an expert!
The good news is you can write about anything and become an expert. It doesn't necessarily need to be something you know right now ...
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- How Editors Know You're An Amateur
By: William Meikle | - Are you happy being an amateur writer? Do you want to stay in that happy state? Then just follow these tips in all your submissions.
Don't address the editor by name. After all, there may be many editorial staff at the publication just waiting to jump at the chance to read your work, and you don't want them to miss out do you?
Don't use double spacing. You never see articles or stories published in double space do you? So why should you bother double spacing your wo ...
Tags: writer, writing, amateur, tips, hep, advice, writing tips
- Fantasy Writing - Six Cliches To Avoid
By: William Meikle | - Fantasy fiction is doing good business at the moment, but there are certain situations that have been overplayed. So much so, that they have become genre clichs, and everybody knows what to expect next. If you're a writer in the fantasy genre, here are 6 clichs you should try to avoid in your stories.
1. Receiving tutoring from the old wise man.
The 'Merlin' gambit, as used in Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Dragonslayer and innumerable King Arthur clones. A stabl ...
Tags: fantasy writing, fantasy stories, writer, writing, writing tips, tips, advice, help, cliche
- Writing Tips - Five Ways To Immediately Improve
By: William Meikle | - As a writer it is all too easy to concentrate on the mechanics of submitting work to editors and to forget that the writing itself is of primary importance. We should all be constantly seeking to improve. If we do that, editorial approval will become that much easier.
To that end, here are five things you can start doing today that will immediately improve your writing, and with it your chances of getting published.
Improve your vocabulary
Buy a good ...
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- Science Fiction Writing - Ten Cliches To Avoid
By: William Meikle | - Science Fiction has become so much part of our culture that icons from it are all around us, in film, TV, computer games and music. Adoption into the mainstream makes science fiction both easy to sell, and hard to write without seeming tired and cliched. Here are ten situations you should steer away from, and some variations to consider if you're determined to proceed.
The Never-Ending Spacecraft Flying Overhead
It starts with just a small piece of hardware c ...
Tags: Science Fiction, SF, Sci-Fi, writing, writer, Science Fiction Writer, Science Fiction writing, help, advice, tips
- Crime Writing - Ten Cliches To Avoid
By: William Meikle | - Crime fiction is big business at the moment, but there are certain situations that have been overplayed so much that they have become genre cliches and everybody knows what to expect next. Here are ten cliches you should try to avoid and thoughts on how to subvert the cliches if you do decide to use them.
Cops and Doctors
You can find this perennial favourite in both crime and historical fiction. You'll see it in ER, NYPD Blue and in cross -genre shows like th ...
Tags: crime fiction, crime writing, fiction, writing, writer, help, advice, tips
- Writing Tips - A Mantra For All Writers
By: William Meikle | - Dinner party or just about anywhere, the conversation usually goes the same way.
"What do you do?" they say.
"I'm a writer," I answer.
"I always wanted to do that," they say.
I wonder if brain surgeons or rocket scientists get the same response.
After I've stifled the urge to scream, I ask why they've never done anything about writing.
"Oh, I'm too busy."
And there's the rub. Everybody is alw ...
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- "don't Polish The Turd," And Other Oddball Writing Advice That Works
By: Jill Smolinski | - Even with a dozen published books to my name, I sometimes need a dose of inspiration when I sit down to write. Above my desk, I've posted a paper with various pieces of fiction-writing wisdom I've collected over the years. Some of the advice may sound odd, but I've found it all helpful. Here it is:
1. Write as if no one's reading. If you always imagine a reader perched on your shoulder, you'll be afraid to take chances. At least for the first draft, ignore that imaginary reader an ...
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- How To Get Published: Eight Surefire Steps For Writing Success
By: Andrea Rains Waggener | - How to get published? That's the big money question for writers. Writing is fulfilling in and of itself, but every writer ultimately wants to learn how to get published.
A lot of writers think getting published is a matter of luck. Or it's a matter of knowing the right person. Or it's a matter of simply being born a brilliant writer.
Although all of the above will help you get published, you don't have to have any of these things. You can LEARN how to get publi ...
Tags: how to get published, get published, how to become a writer, novel writing, write a good book
- Three Fiction Writing Concerns For The Author
By: Kathryn Lively | - One of the challenges an editor must face is polishing the work of an author without erasing too much of that author's style. If you follow a particular novelist, you might notice over time particular quirks to dialog and narrative that shape the author's unique voice, little things inspired to endear readers over time. It may be a method of relaying a specific dialect, a favorite phrase used in more than one book, or even a mechanic style one doesn't often see in certain genres.
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- Short Story Writing: Don't Waste Your Words On Wasted Words!
By: Steve Dempster | - The short story market often demands tight word counts from the writer. Here are some tips on how to keep that word count under control!
Short stories written specifically for inclusion in weekly or monthly magazines are a lucrative source of income for any writer. The pay rate per word is often high and the returns are good for the length of time devoted to any one story.
Yet this market has its own disciplines and one cardinal rule that aspiring writers must obey ...
Tags: fiction writing, factual writing, short story writing, writing dialogue, writing advice, short stories
- Using The Life Cycle In Your Writing
By: Maxine Thompson | - Life is said to evolve in three stages. Creation, survival and destruction. Similar to the life cycle of birth, life, death, and resurrection, these cycles should be reflected in your writing.
In the first part of a story, a character may be creating a career, a new love, a new relationship, a new home, or a new family. In the middle of the book, she is just trying to survive and make ends meet. After getting burnt out, the character might go through a mid-life crisis and walk off ...
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- How To Use Anthologies To Build Your Reading Audience
By: Maxine Thompson | - Copyright 2006 Black Butterfly Press
Two years ago, when my colleague, fellow writer, Patricia Phillips, author of recent novel, Last Bride Standing, (and others) came up with the idea of writing an anthology together, I never realized the unlimited possibilities that could come from a book written by three authors.
Later, when I approached the publisher with the idea of doing an anthology, he said, Anthologies don't do well, but, to his credit, (for which I am et ...
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- 9 Myths That Block You From Completing Your Best Book Now, P1
By: Earma Brown | - Many speakers, consultants, and small business owners alike feel confident with communicating their message orally. They can spout their message in an elevator speech with the accuracy of a scientist. But when it comes to putting it on paper, some grown men & women end up crying like a baby. Through speaking and writing, I have discovered 9 myths that often block others from writing their best book now. I promise. It's not hard once you know exactly what to do.
Successful writers ...
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- How To Build Book Chapters That Keep Your Readers Reading To The End
By: Earma Brown | - The best non-fiction books have a set structure to house their chapters. That structure provides the framework for each chapter. It's stressful to re-invent the wheel every time with a blank screen.
Most people including the author are intimidated by a blank screen. Instead of starting from scratch each chapter, use repeating elements to create structure. In John Maxwell's "21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You" foreword by Zig Ziglar contains ...
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