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Fiction Writing Exercises: Becoming the Antagonist 26 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Fiction writing exercises for understanding opposition. These fiction writing exercises are designed to help fiction writers gain a better understanding of their characters, including antagonists, by...
How Poetry Helps You Improve Your Writing 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Improve your writing with poetry. In the world of writing, one form stands out as different from all the rest: poetry. Poetry is not bound by the constraints of sentence and paragraph structure, con...
9 Steps to Writing a Science-Fiction Novel 21 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Writing a science fiction novel? Please welcome Sarah Kolb-Williams with a guest post on writing a science-fiction novel. Writing a science-fiction novel isn’t all rockets and robots—it’s a brainy l...
Daily Writing Leads to Better Writing 19 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Daily writing will lead to better writing. Today’s post is an excerpt from my book 10 Core Practices for Better Writing. Enjoy! “I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o’clo...
42 Fiction Writing Tips for Novelists 16 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Writing tips for fiction writers. The more I explore fiction writing, the more complex and multi-layered it becomes. Through the processes of brainstorming, outlining, researching, writing, and revis...
Movie-Inspired Writing Prompts 14 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Writing prompts inspired by the movies. There’s nothing quite like sitting with a room full of strangers in a darkened movie theater. The air is filled with the smell of hot, buttered popcorn. Feet s...
Where Do You Find Ideas for Writing? 12 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Where do you get ideas for writing? I used to actively look for writing ideas. When I wanted to write a story, I would search my mind, brainstorm, and ask questions that I thought would lead to somet...
Writing Resources: A Poetry Handbook 9 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Mary Oliver: A Poetry Handbook Poetry is the music of language, the fine art of the written word. It demands a broad vocabulary and creative thinking. It promotes rhythm and meter, and it invites ima...
How to Write Well Without Losing Your Mind 7 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
How to write well without losing your mind. Please welcome writing coach and author Dana Leipold, with an article on staying sane as a writer. When I was in college, I had to write a senior thesis a...
Fiction Writing Exercises for Creating Characters 5 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Create characters with these fiction writing exercises. Whenever I’m working on a story idea, I spend a lot of time during the development stages making character sketches and writing backstories for...
