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Are You Ready For The Publishing Revolution? This Article is About: The Writing Process by John Colanzi, Joh. Writing has traditionally been considered a solitary craft. You wrote you article or book in seclusion. You submitted it to an editor or publisher and prayed it would be published.
Along comes the Internet and the monsters out of the cage. You now...
Ten Essential Tips For Submitting Articles This Article is About: Writing An Essay by Dwain Berlin, Dwa. Submitting well planned articles on-line will increase traffic and can even launch your career when handled right. They'll drive traffic from all over the net and show an excellent return on your time invested.
Write Your Article Like You're...
Poetry in a Nutshell This Article is About: Writing A Paper by Gary R. Hess, Gar. 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 Author Within This Article is About: Style Of Writing by Esther Smith, Est. Just about every marketer on the Internet claims to be the best around and would have you believe that no one else knows as much or can teach you as quickly and thoroughly as they can. It would seem that they erroneously assume that by admiring...
3 Tips to Achieve Your Writing Goals This Article is About: Help With Writing by Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ, She. 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...
5 Benefits of Keeping a Personal Journal This Article is About: The Writing Process by Patti Testerman, Pat. Everyone who has kept a personal journal knows that writing is a therapeutic process that helps integrate seemingly unconnected life events. Some believe the process works because the physical act of writing (using your hand-eye coordination)...
Can Your Theme Be Proved In Your Story? This Article is About: How To Writing by Nick Vernon, Nic. 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...
Does Each Element of Your Story Further The Theme? by Nick Vernon, Nic. 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.
Your theme should progress the story.
If you find that anything in your story...
Have You Tested Your Theme Against Your Plot? This Article is About: How To Writing by Nick Vernon, Nic. Creative Writing Tips –
How we usually begin the preparation stage in the writing process is…
We think of an idea for a story
We think of a suitable theme
We plot
Once we come up with a theme and we begin plotting, we have to see how the theme...
Is The Theme Running Throughout The Story? This Article is About: Style Of Writing by Nick Vernon, Nic. 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...
Does Your Theme Contain Character, Conflict, Resolution? This Article is About: Writing An Essay by Nick Vernon, Nic. Creative Writing Tips –
For a theme to work and the story, which will revolve around the theme, it has to contain three things…
Character
Conflict
Resolution
What’s the reason for this?
If your theme doesn’t contain these three essential...
Does Your Story Have A Theme? This Article is About: How To Writing by Nick Vernon, Nic. Creative Writing Tips –
It should.
A theme is a one-line explanation of your story.. Every story should have one because our stories are about something.
When I say should, I mean that this isn’t always the case. Especially so for beginner...
Does The Title Reflect The Story? This Article is About: Help With Writing by Nick Vernon, Nic. Short Story Writing Tips –
We all have different tastes in what we like to read. Some have a particular taste for horror, while others prefer romance or fantasy or crime stories, etc. My favourite genre in short stories is horror, so once the title...
Have You Settled On First Choice When Choosing A Title? This Article is About: The Art Of Writing by Nick Vernon, Nic. Short Story Writing Tips -
We’ve established what a title should be and we’ve also established your title is your selling tool. So if it can make or break the sale of your story, then we’ll have to agree that it is extremely important. How much...
Have You Tested Your Plot? This Article is About: The Art Of Writing by Nick Vernon, Nic. Creative Writing Tips –
Our plotting stage is our testing area.
Everything in the plot should be tested for its effectiveness before we put in into our stories. If you believe something in your plot could be better, make it better.
Figuring...
Does Your Plot Suit Your Characters And Vice-Versa? This Article is About: Styles Of Writing by Nick Vernon, Nic. 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...
How Are You Plotting? This Article is About: The Writing Process by Nick Vernon, Nic. Creative Writing Tips –
Writing is a creative process and how every writer chooses to create, is individual to them. Likewise, with plotting, every writer plots at a level they are comfortable with.
Some just plot the bare essentials. They have a...
Have You Completed A Character Questionnaire? This Article is About: by Nick Vernon, Nic. 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...
What Can Go Into A Plot? by Nick Vernon, Nic. Creative Writing Tips –
We all tackle plotting differently. How you plot will be individual to you, as it is with every writer.
Below is an outline of what can go into a plot. How much you choose to develop each point is entirely up to you.
So some...
Do You Plot With Your Character In Mind? This Article is About: The Art Of Writing by Nick Vernon, Nic. Creative Writing Tips –
You are plotting the story. You write down what will happen, what problems will arise, what obstacles you will place so the character won’t reach his goals immediately, what he’s going to do to overcome these problems etc…...
Have You Plotted Your Story Before Writing It? This Article is About: On Writing Well by Nick Vernon, Nic. 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...