No matter how experienced you are and how many stories you’ve written; please pay a special attention to the following article. Point of view is one of those things that impacts everything about your story. It influences the way you write and what you write, it suggests to the readers which characters should be liked [...]
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Creative Writing 101 - Point of View
Posted in creative writing 101, writing, tagged point of view, POV on November 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Creative Writing 101: Fleshing out Characters
Posted in characters, creative writing 101, tagged creating characters, femme fatale, gay, PI, show not tell on October 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
You already know a thing or two about creating a character. I wrote about some basics in my “Search and Destroy: Mary Sue” article.
What I’m about to write here will be closely connected to that previous post.
There are many ways of creating a character. And however you do it, I want you to remember one [...]
Creative Writing 101: Workspace
Posted in creative writing 101, tagged novel, workplace, workspace, writing on October 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Look around. No seriously. Look around.
Is this the place you’re usually sit when writing? If no, go there now and look around.
All done? Good.
Now describe what you’re seeing.
I sit in front of my computer. In a living room where my family usually spend their evenings. The TV is on, everybody’s chatting. I have my headphones [...]
Creative Writing 101: Introduction
Posted in creative writing 101, writing, tagged creative writing, dan brown, introduction, jk rowling, novel on October 4, 2007 | No Comments »
This is somewhat of a long term project that I’m working on. It’s a series of posts about writing and how to get things going.
Where to start and what to concentrate on when you’re writing a bigger piece.
Now. I might now be a huge name out there and maybe I don’t have that much titles [...]
