Writing Tips - Adding Complexity To Your Narrative
Complex narrative structure is used by authors to add interest by complicating the story. This article outlines several methods of achieving this.
Getting Published - A Stairway to Heaven
Eight Steps to success as a published writer, and how to avoid slipping back down them again.
Gauge or Caliber: Getting Your Research Right
Writers often need to know just what kind of weaponry their protagonists are using. Here's a useful primer as to the different terms and what they mean.
Crime Writing - Ten Cliches to Avoid
Crime fiction is big business at the moment, but there are certain situations that have been overplayed so much that they have become genre cliches and everybody knows what to expect next. Here are ten cliches you should try to avoid and thoughts on how to subvert the cliches if you do decide to use them.
Horror Writing - Ten Cliches to Avoid
For anyone thinking about writing in the horror genre, there are certain situations that, over the years, have been done so often that the audience knows exactly what to expect. Using any of these is fine if you're being post-modern and ironic as in the Scream series, because you can get the audience laughing as they jump. But if you're trying for the big scare, here are some situations to avoid, and alternative scenarios to consider.
Science Fiction Writing - Ten Cliches to Avoid
Adoption into the mainstream makes science fiction both easy to sell, and hard to write without seeming tired and cliched. Here are ten situations you should steer away from, and some variations to consider if you're determined to proceed.
Writing Tips - Five Ways to Immediately Improve
As a writer it is all too easy to concentrate on the mechanics of submitting work to editors and to forget that the writing itself is of primary importance. We should all be constantly seeking to improve. If we do that, editorial approval will become that much easier.
Three Fiction Writing Concerns for the Author
Here are three common writing situations all authors should consider in their craft.
Writing Fiction from Experiences
Life is a book. No saying can hold more truth than that one short quote. Life is indeed a book waiting to be written. Ideas for the best novels and stories often come from the authors past experiences, what they observe, or what they hear from people around them.
Is There A Book In You? Ten Points That Will Help You Decide
The desire to have a book with your name on the cover seems universal - yet how many would-be writers really know if they have what it takes to succeed? Here are ten points that every beginner should consider.
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