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Researching The Setting For Your Nove...

Picking the setting of a novel is obviously a critical step. Writing a classic detective novel set in a tiny town in...

posted on: Nov 10, 2009 | section: Story Development

Where roads are concerned, writers and poets usually focus on intangible meanings such as spiritual roads, roads to...

posted on: Jan 28, 2009 | section: Story Development

The devil, it’s said, is in the details. So, too, is much of the work of a writer. Too little detail leaves your...

posted on: Jun 26, 2008 | section: Craft and Technique

Today we are going to experiment with using props in our stories. Those staplers and paperclips sitting in the office...

posted on: May 14, 2008 | section: Creative Writing Prompts

Where there are people, there is gossip. There’s no getting away from that. I suppose it is the result of not...

posted on: May 13, 2008 | section: Creative Writing Prompts

I had a little bit of writer’s block this morning and couldn’t think of a topic for today’s set of...