When you’re writing the first draft of your book or story, it’s not really too important that you have a target demographic or audience in mind. The most important thing at this stage is to actually get the story out… Read More ›
Fiction
Creating a World Bible
Worldbuilding is an integral part of the planning or outlining stages for stories set in worlds, universes and realities that are different to our own. It can help to inform your story and setting, and it can also help with… Read More ›
5 Tips to Improve Dialogue
Dialogue can be an essential element of fiction writing, and it can be challenging to get right. Here are five tips to help nudge you along in the right direction. 1 Write Believable Dialogue Even though what you are writing… Read More ›
The Cost of Living
Hi everyone, this was a piece of flash fiction that I wrote for a creative writing course a while ago, and I had published it as such previously, however, having edited it to within an inch of its life, I… Read More ›
Why It’s Important to tell Stories
Storytelling is an integral part of growing up and has been since long before the advent of the written word. In fact, stories probably predate language if you take into account cave drawings made by our prehistoric ancestors. Once language… Read More ›
The 27 Chapter Outline
There are many different ways to outline a story from a simple bullet list of events to a more detailed description of each and every single scene. The 27 chapter outline seems to be a mixture. I came across this… Read More ›
Writing Tips 2
Hi everyone, I couldn’t think of any other ways of saying ‘more’ than the ones that I’ve already used (even with the help of the internet), so I had no other choice than to stick a number on the end… Read More ›
Writing out of Order
Some people like to work in a lovely, clean, linear pattern and I class myself as one of those people. In general, I prefer things to be neat and orderly but even more so when I write. No matter what… Read More ›
Creating Atmosphere
Creating atmosphere in a work of fiction can be incredibly tricky, but there are things you that you can do to increase your chances of doing it successfully. For instance, when you are describing the setting from a character’s point… Read More ›
Writing Tips – Writing Children’s Stories 2
Hi everyone, I had a little bit of time, and so I thought I’d write some more Writing Tips for writers who find crafting children’s stories as difficult as I do. You can find parts one and three of this… Read More ›
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