Creative Writing Article Database
How Are You Plotting?
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 firm
By:Nick Vernon
Have You Tested Your Theme Against Your Plot?
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 plotOnce we come up with a theme and we begin plotting, we have to see h
By:Nick Vernon
Have You Tested Your Plot?
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 everything
By:Nick Vernon
Have You Plotted Your Story Before Writing It?
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 sto
By:Nick Vernon
Dipping Into the Character Well
I believe that the best fiction is character-driven. Plotlines are of secondary importance, because if we don t care about the characters then the drama that unfolds around them fails to stir our interest. This division is really an artificial one, t
By:Seth T Mullins
3 Steps To Better Sales Copywriting
Whether you’re wet-behind-the-ears or a seasoned copywriter, your craft will benefit by remembering one thing:
You’re nothing more than a salesperson.
There’s an old saying in the “business” that, “a copywriter is a salesperson sitting in front of
By:J.L. Reid
Does Your Theme Contain Character, Conflict, Resolution?
Creative Writing Tips –For a theme to work and the story, which will revolve around the theme, it has to contain three things…1.Character2.Conflict3.Resolution What’s the reason for this? If your theme doesn’t contain these three essential elements,
By:Nick Vernon
Does Your Story Have A Theme?
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 writers, wh
By:Nick Vernon
Does Your Plot Suit Your Characters And Vice Versa?
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 on
By:Nick Vernon
Do You Plot With Your Character In Mind?
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… So a
By:Nick Vernon
Do You Know What A Plot Is?
Creative Writing Tips –What a plot is and what a story is can be sometimes confusing. If you think they are the same… They are not. A plot is the outline of your story. The story is everything included. I will illustrate the difference by asking you
By:Nick Vernon
Creative Copywriting?
There is a difference between creative writing and copywriting. It took me a while to come to terms with this but it s true, there is a difference. When I first started my home based business on the Internet I read a lot of advice about publishing ar
By:Elaine Currie
A Cure for Writer’s Block
A Cure for Writer s BlockWriter s block is a favourite topic of writer s, and no wonder….nearly every writer suffers from it at some crucial point in their careers. Writer s block usually comes to visit at the most inopportune times, like during proj
By:Ruth Farmer
9 Ways to Live Creatively
Creativity – according to Webster’ s it means having the ability or power to create characterized by originality and expressiveness imaginative. Ok that sounds great, wouldn’ t we all like to be more creative every day? Sometimes th
By:Lise Richards
Updated Creative Writing Related News - Writing Resources
ANN ARBOR: Creative writing class gets students in the habit of writing regul...
?I hope you keep this up.? Those are the six little words Karen Simpson had always dreamed of saying as a teacher. On a recent Saturday, her wish came true. Simpson, along with Debbie Taylor, completed a four-week Creative Writing Workshop series at the Ann Arbor Community Center (628 N. Main Street).
Stephanie Vanderslice: Creative Writing Can Be Taught: Creative Writing Profe...
On January 11th, 2012, Anis Shivani published a screed called "Can Creative Writing Be Taught? Therapy for the Disaffected Masses." He's not accurately portraying what we do in creative writing. We invite him and others to take a closer look at the exciting things happening in our field.
Body of Work: 40 Years of Creative Writing at UEA, edited by Giles Foden ? re...
A birthday salute to the UEA's creative writing course betrays the usual anxieties about whether writing can be taught Life begins at 40, according to the title of Walter Pitkin's 1930s self-help tome , but Schopenhauer's more stately observation that "the first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary" captures the somewhat more sober, reflective tone of Body of Work ...
A for Alice, Z for Zia and (maybe) for Osama!
Anasuya Basu
