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Characterization – Giving Each Character Unique Mannerisms
As writers, one of the most important aspects of our story writing is to present the reader with real life, three-dimensional characters. One way of...(Keep Reading)
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Writing Inspiration
Writing Prompt by Bella McPherson
A writer is only as good as her ideas. That is why it’s frustrating when writers run out of inspiration. In fact, most put down their pens for...(Keep Reading)
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Publishing
Get Ready For the ISTC, A New Book Identifier
ISTC (International Standard Text Code) is likely to come into use in the book industry worldwide late this year or early 2011. Basically it goes...(Keep Reading)
Writing Prompts: Creating Symbols
Today’s writing prompts are going to focus on how symbols obtain their status as such. The majority of symbols start out as ordinary and even positive things. For example, before the...(Keep Reading)
Writing Prompts: Pull the Trigger
I was watching CSI: Las Vegas the other night. Or rather, I was flipping through the channels and tuned into the last fifteen minutes of it. In this episode, Hodges decided to help Grissom with the...(Keep Reading)
Writing Prompts: Double Vision
As a writer, it is important to be able to see all the angles even if you don’t agree with them otherwise you run the risk of writing boring, two dimensional stories with flat characters. With...(Keep Reading)
Busted: 5 Writing Myths
One common element whenever human beings gather is the need to talk and share experiences. Often that need turns into something a little more fun, a little more dangerous — gossip. Gossip is...(Keep Reading)
Writing Prompts: Symbolism
posted on: Jun 9, 2008 | section: Writing Inspiration
The recent spate of holidays got me thinking about how it is that something so mundane as a calendar day could become something more than it was intended to become. Days of the week, months and years were only meant to mark the different seasons...(Keep Reading)
Best of Craigslist: Part X-The Graduation Edition
posted on: Jun 6, 2008 | section: Writing Inspiration
Finally we have made it through the week and graduated to the Best of Craigslist Friday. Before you go out and spend hours fighting the crowds searching for that perfect present for the graduate in your life, take a few moments to enjoy some...(Keep Reading)
Writing Tips-Trust, Let Go and Leap
posted on: Jun 5, 2008 | section: Craft and Technique
When you sit down at the blank page or screen, you have three simple tasks: Trust. Let go. Leap. Trust. Trust that each word that emerges is the correct and appropriate one. Don’t judge. Trust your imagination. Trust past your imagination,...(Keep Reading)
Writing Prompts-Reflections
posted on: Jun 5, 2008 | section: Writing Inspiration
Graduation is a perfect time to reflect on the things we have learned on the way. The characters in these writing prompts were chosen to speak to a group of graduates. Write the speech they give where they share the greatest lesson they learned on...(Keep Reading)
Writing Prompts: Skillz
posted on: Jun 4, 2008 | section: Writing Inspiration
Advancing to the next level usually means you have mastered the skills you currently have and are ready for the next set of challenges. Today’s set of writing prompts will explore the space between conquering a skill level and moving to the...(Keep Reading)
Writing Prompts: Moving On
posted on: Jun 3, 2008 | section: Writing Inspiration
Today we are going to get supernatural with the graduation theme. Many believe that death is just a door we go through to transition back into our real lives as ethereal beings. I tend to believe this myself. There’s just so much we...(Keep Reading)
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