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6 Writers Who Broke the Rules and Got Away with It
The more I study the craft of writing, the more rules I hear about, and most of these are guidelines based on making a book reader-friendly. As much as I believe it’s good practice to avoid the common pitfalls of beginning writers, there are always exceptions to every rule. Here are six commonly heard rules for writers, and six authors who’ve gotten away with breaking them. (By ‘gotten away with’, I mean being published, selling tons of copies, and in some cases, winning awards): Rule: Don’t write in First Person, Present Tense
9 Editing Tips that Make Your Writing Sparkle
When you become too familiar with a piece of writing, suddenly it’s more difficult to spot weaknesses and errors. Instead of trusting your eyes to take on all the hard work, read your writing aloud , which forces you to slow down. 2.
his is a newcomer’s guide on how to get started in the genre of fantasy writing, from one newcomer to another. The majority of what is discussed here has come from the Forward Motion community as well as from occasional meanderings on the Web based on pointers given by members of that writers' community. Writing fantasy, whether in the form of short stories or novels, does not necessarily follow a set pattern or formula. A fantasy story can contain aspects of most other genres, including mystery, horror, and romance.
Fantasy: Getting Started
A new tip for productivity | A Writer's Journey
As a homeschooling mom, I do all my planning for the week on Sundays. I use a spreadsheet that lays out the full week, organizes by topic, and lets me see in one page what needs to be done, and even how to do it. Writing Planner - I created a table with 7 columns for each day of the week, and the rows are broken up on labels such as; Blogging - With keeping a blogging schedule, I find its faster to post and even brainstorm ideas by knowing when I need to update a new post. Exercise - This was recently added to remind me that I need to exercise regularly.
Use the following questions to help you in framing your story. As well, you need to follow the step-by-step outline in writing your story. Your story has to include all aspects of the outline. Your very first step in the Hero's journey is to design a character. If you are writing an original story, use these questions to help shape your hero. And if you are analyzing a classic story, try to answer the questions based upon your knowledge of the primary character.
INSTRUCTIONS TO WRITTING YOUR EPIC
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Primedia Lawsuit On March 20, 2002, 34 current and former writers ("guides") for About.com sued Primedia Inc., About.com, former About.com CEO Scott Kurnit, and various "John Does" for fraudulent accounting, copyright infringement, and other issues of interest to writers. Click the link to read the full text of the complaint.
Hi and thanks for visiting. It turns out some new visitors aren't aware of our FREE ebook called The Secrets Of Writing Like a Professional. You can download it here The San Francisco Examiner turned down Rudyard Kipling’s submission in 1889 with the note, “I am sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just do not know how to use the English language.” An editor once told F.
11 Famous Writers Who Were Rejected Before Making It Big - BubbleCow - StumbleUpon
Eight Secrets Which Writers Won’t Tell You — Aliventures
Image from Flickr by Lazurite This is not particularly relevant to the post, but I’m getting an awful lot of comments telling me, often a little snarkily, “it’s ‘THAT’ not ‘WHICH’”. The “don’t use which for restrictive clauses” rule comes (as far as I can tell) from Strunk and White.
Image credit: aless&ro It’s made a dramatic difference. I write far, far more. I write better. I finish things – something which, at one point in my writing life, was pretty much unheard of. In the past few years, I’ve been lucky enough to work alongside all sorts of great writers, during my MA in Creative Writing, and in my freelancing.
7 Habits of Serious Writers — Aliventures - StumbleUpon
My buddha at Copyblogger says… “On average, 8 out of 10 people will read headline copy, but only 2 out of 10 will read the rest. This is the secret to the power of the headline, and why it so highly determines the effectiveness of the entire piece.” Everyone has something to say about the mechanics of a great headline.
17 Crazy Places to Get Jaw Dropping Headline Ideas
Lots of people can write decent non-fiction. You’re probably one of them. You can write a decent blog post, or a report at work, or an essay. You can put your ideas down on the page, in a reasonably engaging way.
Why Fiction is So Hard to Write — Aliventures
5 situations where it's better to tell than show in your fiction
One piece of writing advice gets held up as more sacred than any other: Show, don't tell. But this maxim can ruin your story-telling, if you treat it like a law. Here are five situations where telling is actually better. Like most rules of thumb, "Show don't tell" is excellent advice most of the time — but people often apply it too broadly, or in situations where it hurts more than it helps.An alternate title for this post might be, “Things I Think About Writing,” which is to say, these are random snidbits (snippets + tidbits) of beliefs I hold about what it takes to be a writer. I hesitate to say that any of this is exactly Zen (oh how often we as a culture misuse the term “Zen” — like, “Whoa, that tapestry is so cool, it’s really Zen “), but it certainly favors a sharper, shorter style than the blathering wordsplosions I tend to rely on in my day-to-day writing posts. Anyway. Peruse these. Absorb them into your body.
25 Things Every Writer Should Know - StumbleUpon
If you find yourself constantly revising and tweaking, or if you cringe every time you show a piece of writing to a friend or publish a blog post, or if you work always sounds stilted and guarded … then this post is for you. You might have felt pretty unconvinced by that – perhaps you’re sure that you never had any confidence at all. But I’m certain that at some stage of your writing life, you did. Perhaps it was when you were very small.