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
NaNoWriMo: The Biggest Writing Event in the World
The time has come. At midnight tonight, tens of thousands of writers will embark on a challenge like no other — a writer’s marathon if ever there was one — each working to complete a 50,000-word novel is just thirty days. That’s quite a feat! Last year, over one hundred thousand people participated in NaNoWriMo…Read More
Link Love Mad Libs for the Writing Community
Let’s talk about links and why it’s beneficial to spread link love throughout the writing community. For some reason, Google thinks links are the cat’s meow. When someone links to your blog, Google says “Hey, people like that blog over there!” And then whoosh — your Google Page Rank goes up while you purr and…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
Why Great Writing Matters Online
A recent and somewhat shocking post over at Skelliewag attempts to convince web writers that quality writing, good grammar, and spelling do not matter online. In a post titled, “Why Great Writing Doesn’t Matter Online,” Skellie declares that web writers do not need to adhere to the same level of standards as other writers. While…Read More
Blog Action Day: Environmentally Friendly Writing
Today’s writing tips save the world! My post today is part of a community action called Blog Action Day. This year, the focus in on the environment, and over fifteen thousand blogs are participating. For my contribution, I’d like to share some tips that will help writers contribute to conservation by saving paper. Why is…Read More
A Creative Writing Blog
Hello, and welcome to Writing Forward, a brand new creative writing blog. If you’re a writer, then this is the place for you, and if creative writing is your passion, you’ll find tons of useful articles here in the coming months. My Creative Writing Story My name is Melissa Donovan, and like most writers I…Read More
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