If your articles seem dull, try these tips for writing better articles. Make them spicy and exciting as well as informative. You can capture your readers’ attention and make them anxious to read more.
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Find Your True Writer’s Voice
Experience is the path toward finding your true writer’s voice You may start your writing career by sub-consciously imitating a writer you greatly admire, but in the end, you’ll find the greatest satisfaction comes from being yourself.
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Let the Words Flow
It is easy to be a writer – that’s what some people think. They say, “Oh, you’re lucky. All you have to do is write. And you make millions.”
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Writing a Novel
I wrote this article in December 2004 for Happy Camp News. It is about how I got started writing novels.
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The Unfinished Manuscript, How to Get to “The End”
It’s hard to get back into fiction writing after being away from it for a while. It takes only a brief lull, a sudden shock, or a simple distraction to move our minds away from the flow of words in our chosen fictional worlds; then we’re lost, [Read more…]
Ten Tips for New Writers
Ten tips for new writers of any genre…
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Songwriting Basics
A few basic songwriting issues and considerations, with emphasis on how songwriting is inspired, and how to connect to the listener’s heart.
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Plotting a Novel Through Character Development
A novel plot must have an intriguing beginning, a complex interior, and a satisfying finale, all this based on the inner development of a main character we can love and care deeply about — otherwise, why would anyone continue to read? [Read more…]
Fictions and Truths – Writing Assignment
I’ve never taken a class in fiction writing before. I’ve been wanting to, for a long time. Today I enrolled at FutureLearn.com in a free class – “Start Writing Fiction.”
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Trying Desperately to Create Fiction
Fiction fears force your literary aspirations to wrestle with apathy and self-condemnation.
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A Daily Mind-Map Journal
Mind-mapping is a brainstorming tool most of us know about. I’m creating a daily mind-map journal to help with my blogging and novel-writing projects.
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The Popularity Contest of Life
Sometimes life seems like a huge popularity contest.
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