A World of Creative Writing Ideas: Outside
Please welcome freelance writer Matthew Erickson with his guest post about getting up, getting out, and getting inspired. It’s easy for writers to lock themselves away from the rest of the world in order to get creative. However, getting out and exploring the world is great fodder for the creative mind. If you are having…Read More
How to Start a Successful Writers’ Workshop
Today’s guest post is by Alana Saltz, freelance writer, editor, and creative writing instructor. When you get down to the heart of it, writing is a solitary pursuit. However, many of us writers don’t enjoy being holed up alone all day in our bedrooms, typing away on our computers. Most of us seek the friendship,…Read More
How to Create Effective Scenes and Chapters in Your Novel
Please welcome Idrees Patel with a piece on creating scenes and chapters in your novel. Fiction writing is one of the most popular forms of creative writing. Everyone is trying to write some fiction — novels, short stories, novelettes, novellas, micro-fiction, and even Twitter fiction. Events like NaNoWriMo are becoming wildly popular. More and more…Read More
How to Write a Memoir With a Partner
Today’s guest post, “How to Write a Memoir with a Partner” is by Deborah Prutzman, co-author of Addie of the Flint Hills: A Prairie Child During the Depression (1915-1935) (aff link). Few writers would argue that writing is a solitary pursuit. That said, collaborations between two or more writers do occur, and some have been…Read More
10 Tips to Improve Your Fiction Writing Skills
This post was contributed by Kelly Kilpatrick, who writes on the subject of distance learning universities. Writing fiction, whether short or long, can be a very trying experience indeed. So many writers of fiction have different processes for achieving their writing goals that it’s hard to sift through what works and what doesn’t. Writing is…Read More
What Can Fiction Writers Learn from Poetry?
The following is a guest post by William Womack who also blogs at Words for Writers. Fiction writers are scavengers. We scour daily life collecting faces and names, sharp words and longing glances, then hunker in our caves to weave tapestries from the pretty bits we’ve found. It isn’t just ideas and images we pilfer;…Read More
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