Tag: finding your voice
Nothing is Wasted (If You Put It To Use)
Your life experiences — exhilarating and tedious, mundane and magnificent — should inform your written work. Channel your emotions and use descriptive details to make your story-world come alive.
Do You Keep A Short Fiction Journal?
Not only does keeping a journal of short fiction keep your creative writing muscles working, harvesting your short fiction might lead to your next great idea for a novel.
Don’t Get Caught Up In The “Cult of the First Sentence”
There’s this cult of the opening sentence, as if crafting a perfect first line is the key to writing a best-selling novel. Here's my take: it isn't.
Green-light editing: What makes publication-quality text?
Publication-quality text is what agents, editors, and readers are looking for — and they can tell whether you have it in the first paragraph, or even the first sentence.
Writing A Best-Selling Book [Infographic]
There's no formula for writing a best-selling book, but that doesn't mean it's not worthwhile to dissect best sellers and look for trends and patterns to better understand what these books have in common.
Using writing snippets to exercise your creative mind
Writing snippets are practical, creative exercises that let you work on specific elements of your writing and explore styles outside your comfort zone.
Words That Carry Maximum Weight: Tropes In Storytelling
Tropes — cultural references or recurrent themes imbued with shared meaning — can be a staple of storytelling (and a potential path to cliché).