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  • How to prove your theme in your story - Your theme has to be something you can prove in your story - It does not have to be a universal truth. This means that your theme does not have to be something that happens in real life all the time (providing our logic can accept it, in order for us to believe it). Whatever story you choose to write, be it a contemporary or a story, which requires elements of fantasy such as in horror, science fiction etc… the events of that story has to appear logical.
  • How To Get Ideas For Your Writing - Have you ever wanted to write fiction or articles for a publication but you find that you can’t think of anything interesting to write about? Well you’re not the only one. For a long period in my life I had a hard time coming up with good ideas for stories and articles, mostly because I was going about it all wrong. Then when I was off doing other things in my daily life (doing housework, my job, watching TV) I would reminisce and day dreamed of good experiences in my past or what life could be like. I also had many interests and hobbies, but I failed to connect them with a means of getting ideas for my writing. One day I woke up and said to myself...
  • Writing Book Reports - If you are a student, writing a book report is something you will probably have to do at some time whether you want to or not.It has never been a favorite activity for most but it is always valuable.
  • Writing Stories - There's nothing like writing a story. It is a truly satisfying creative process. In order to write a story that people will enjoy. You need to understand the key elements that all good writers use in stories. In this article we will explore these elements. 1. Brainstorming Ask yourself these questions: What are you are going to write about? Who will be your audience? How much do you know about what you want to write about? What do I need to find out? 2.
  • How is your story theme furthered by elements in your story - Creative Writing Tips – Whichever theme you choose, all the elements, which make up your story, dialogue, conflict, scenes, etc should be written with the theme in mind. Your theme should progress the story. If you find that anything in your story does not progress it, it should be cut when you are in the editing stage. Before we see an example of elements written with a theme in mind, let us think of a theme and a story…. The theme is… ‘Arrogance Leads To Humiliation’ Very briefly, this story is about a character that believes he is better than his colleagues. His goal is to get promoted to a managerial position.
  • The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter 11 - Chapter Eleven: Inspire With Your Storytelling While finding time to write came be like having unplanned sex, the act of writing is more like making love. You cannot fake it. You must feel it.
  • The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter 12 - Chapter 12: Get Real Nobody becomes Ernest Hemingway overnight, not even Ernest Hemingway. Style is fundamental to the person doing the writing. Trying to adopt someone else's style is like wearing a toupee. It might look good in passing, but on closer inspection, it doesn't look right. Adopting someone else's style is normal and many writers start by doing that. You hope to be that good some day. However, when you do that you lose what makes you unique. And the reader will notice. The reader wants the writer who is talking to him to be authentic. As a result, to become a great writer, you must be you.
  • The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapters 7-8 - The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter 7: Ninety-five percent of Writing is Just Showing Up If I were to ask each of you why you haven't written a book, I'm guessing the most common answer would be that there doesn't seem to be enough...
  • The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter 4 - The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter Four: Nothing turns out as you expect it to. That's the journey. That's the excitement. That's the joy of writing. The trick is to let our unconscious take us where we go while we move out of its way.

  • How To Write A Book Of Memoirs Fast - Who said it was too hard to write your life story? That's a myth; you can write your memoirs fast. The truth is anyone can write a book of memoirs. Well, anyone with a strong desire can do it. You might think aha; I knew it was a catch. No really. You can easily write your book of memoirs. It's the same with everything. You have to want it first. If you want to write your life story fast, here's 5 top tips that will speed you on your way to a successful book of memoirs. 1.Know every life story is important. Every fingerprint is unique and so is every life story.
  • The Writing Journey: Transforming Lives - When I was growing up, my parents took an annual two-week camping trip that took us to many places in the U.S. and Canada. They'd pack the car with all the equipment, clothes, and food for them and their brood of five kids. Eventually the family grew to seven (plus the occasional friend who came along).
  • Story Endings are Important, But How do You Get There? - It's all very well having a brilliant idea for a story plot but you need to know more than how it starts. The right ending is vital, so are you prepared? Have you a clear plan as to how you're going to get there? There are four methods you can use to plan how your story will end: 1. Just do it. This is where you start writing from page one and hope it will all turn out right in the end. Fingers crossed.
  • The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter 6 - Push Past Your Insecurities and Keep Moving Your Pen Writing takes courage. Talent is part of the equation, but it is a smaller part. Becoming a writer takes a willingness to let people see who you really are. Determination is the key. In January, after many suggestions over the years, I finally arranged to work with a channeler. I had glimpses through the years of what I call my Council of 12, a group of spirits guiding me through the perils of life's choices.
  • Legacy Writing - 19 Questions to Help You Put Your Life on Paper - There are more than six billion people on the planet and I am a firm believer that every one of us has a story to tell. We all do the best we can with what we've got, spend most of our lives trying to determine what is most important, face huge obstacles, and learn from our worst mistakes. So how strange is it that on a planet with so many stories, every one of them is so important?
  • An Alternative Solution For Anyone Who Wants To Write A Novel - The phrase is well worn, ‘Everyone has one book in them.’ Countless New Year resolutions fail because aspiring novelists fail to put pen to paper and too many conversations that start, “How’s that book you’ve been planning to write,” end in, “I haven’t got round to it yet.” For many wannabe writers, the reasons for not putting pen to paper and at least starting the novel are legitimate.
  • How To Find The Novel That Only You Can Write - Most people think writing a novel is just writing. I have lost count of the number of people who say “I want to write a novel” and think that they will just sit down, put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, and the whole thing will just unfold before them. I’ve read a few novels, they think, why can’t I write one? If only it were that easy! The process of writing any story is exactly that, a process.
  • The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter 5 - The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter Five: Hold On To Your Vision This might seem to be in direct conflict with letting go of expectations in Chapter Four. However, there is a distinct difference between expectation and vision. Let me explain. Imagination is the basis of a vision. But as you begin to implement the vision, systems and skills take over. A vision develops by becoming specific. When you take the first step, all the steps after that acknowledge and relate to that first step.
  • The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapters 9-10 - Chapter Nine: Give Your Mind, Body and Soul Daily Attention Staying focused requires you to take care of yourself in mind, body, and spirit.
  • What A New Writer Has To Know About Creating A Character - What is the soul of a story? Some people say the plot, some others say the characters. I say, it’s both. But now, I’d like to talk about characters. How do you create a character?
  • The Truth About The Writing Life - When you are a writer, you cannot separate your writing from your life. Writers cannot not write, so writing for you is like breathing. It is so natural you don't even think about it. I think it's a shame that so many writers treat their writing as anything from "special time" to the last thing on their to-do list. Writing is life. And so the principles of life, or the truth about life, are also the principles of, or the truth about, the writing life. I recently re-read a favorite spiritual book, and in it I found a quote from the author's high school drama teacher. This drama teacher must have been a wise man because he always taught his drama students the following: The Truth About Life 1.
  • What Everybody Ought To Know About Creative Writing And Being A Professional Writer - There are many people trying to be a writer. They keep practicing—which is good—but sometimes they are lack of guidance.
  • How to Write a Fiction Story: Fleshing Out Your Idea - I can’t count the number of times someone has buttonholed me at a party and said, “So you write children’s books? I’ve got a great idea for a book.” Sometimes it really is a great idea; sometimes it’s the kind that makes you grimace politely and dive for the punchbowl.
  • How To Start Your Story Effectively to Keep Your Reader Reading - Whether a person buys your novel or continues reading your short story is often decided with the first page or even paragraph. How you start your story is vitally important. Here are some ideas to put you on course to keep your reader reading. Your story should start with some significant event or turning point and present the main character with a problem they have to solve. It should interrupt the hero's life and send him off in a new and exciting direction. Pique your readers' interest, get them excited, and they will be panting for more before you can say 'protagonist'.
  • Write What You Know - The best sort of writing is concise and usually very simple. It is also derived out of a place very deep within the self: passion. Passion, with a little acquired know-how, can make all the difference between bad and dispassionate writing, versus bad and passionate writing. This is to say that passion can and will impact bad writing as much as will good.
  • A Solution To The Problem Of Writing For Children - Many aspiring writers decide the way to start their career is to write for children. And they tend to have two very good reasons for deciding this: 1. The woman that wrote the stories about the boy wizard is doing very well for herself and I want some of that 2. It’s much easier to write for children – there are fewer pages and the words don’t need to be as long. I will start by saying, in case you hadn’t guessed, that I think these are the worst two reasons in the world to start writing for children. If you were serious about entering the fray, I would start by asking if this is something you’ve dreamed about for a very long time? If it isn’t, I question your dedication and your knowledge of the market.
  • Why You Should Write Your Autobiography - Your life story is unique. You have been through situations, events and emotions that no-one else has in quite the same way. These memories are worth recording. Even if you've lived what you consider to be a normal, uneventful, even boring life, I can tell you that there are aspects of your life that will be of interest to many other people. Your children and grandchildren will be delighted to hear about your life as well as other close relatives!
  • Life, Passion... Deadline - The Conclusion of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series You're ready to write the story of your life. You've put your heart and soul into it. • Your themes resonate with you, and they're the core of the novel. • You've hidden them so well you'll write a story, not a message. • You're willing to write honestly, knowing you can't please everyone, but you'll reach the people who will understand YOU.
  • Scrapbook Journal Idea - How To Create Perfect Story With Simple Scrapbooking Journaling - Scrapbook journaling is the inscription that goes with pictures in a scrapbook compilation. There are some styles when writing journals. Some of which are story-telling, scriptwriting, others use fictional stories and a lot more.
  • Fill in Background by Using Flashbacks - What is a 'flashback'? Think of a flash of light illuminating a scene from the past and you've got it. Say you are writing a story and want to start, quite rightly, at the turning point in your hero's life, or the point where the action really takes off.
  • Young Writers - If you are between the ages of 8 to 18 and love to write, be it short stories, plays or poems, then you are a young writer. For the writer nothing is more satisfying than finishing a story, play, poem etc. In fact some young writers decide to make it their career of choice. This is not always an easy path but if you have a passion for it you will ride out the difficult times. Here are some tips to help you. 1.
  • Reading Comprehension Strategies - Comprehension should always be the chief concern when teaching reading. What good is reading if the child has no understanding of what is read? In this article I will outline key reading comprehension strategies and show how they should be used.
  • Improve Your Writing Skills With These Three Easy Tips - For some, writing effectively is as simple of a task as breathing. For others, writing is like a car that keeps stalling and really doesn't ever seem to get going smoothly. Have you ever wished that you could improve your writing skills? If your writing is more like the stalled automobile, don't let that stop you. You can improve your writing skills just by using the following tips. Do a quick reminder course about nouns, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions. If you want to write well, it's important to know what they are and how to use them properly.
  • How That Novel Idea Becomes A Novel - One day you wake up and announce to the world that you would like to write a novel. Pardon the pun, but that is a novel idea. At some point in time that is what everyone dreams about. Let's face it; we all have a story to tell, don't we? In reality though, how does it all really come about? For me, the writing itself is relatively easy. The sentence structure; the punctuation; the correct spelling are all general tools that don't cause much of a problem for me.
  • Make Conflict the Backbone of Your Story - Most types of story, whether short stories or novels, absolutely need that vital ingredient: the conflict. Preferably more than one. You may well have your characters all fleshed out and ready to go, but don't give them an easy ride! Bring some angst into their lives, your readers will love it! Conflict is not necessarily physical violence or fast action, although it certainly can be this. Writers like Dick Francis and Ian Fleming offer this kind of action in spades. But the writers often bring in other kinds of conflict which may be a little more cerebral. Conflict can be conflict of purpose, conflict of ideologies, conflict in social standing and, of course, the inner conflict where the character is torn between two courses of action which they have to wrestle with and decide upon.
  • Does Your Novel Have A Heartbeat? - PART I of The 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series You've read through what you've written---your first few scenes, your first chapter, your completed novel---and you've discovered that your words don't move you.
  • The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn: Chapters 3 - Chapter 3: Expressing What's In Our Hearts and Minds is a Direct Way to Access Your God, No Matter What Name You Use to Describe Him/Her Writing is a deceptively difficult art. It takes time, perseverance, patience, desire, and did I say, perseverance. Only write if you truly want to. As a writer I know put it, there are easier ways to be miserable. However, the rewards are great. Writing brings a feeling of power and freedom. And if you do it regularly and with consistency, you will get better. Through writing, we access the inner landscape of our soul.
  • The Art of Writing a Good Article - We all do many things in our daily life, but only few people become really famous and known for the work they do. That is because their work might be different from all others. Those people stand out in such things because of their interest, skill and art in doing that work. Every work on this world has a profession. That professionalism is achieved due to practice which leads to a better quality outcome from an individual.
  • Give Your Readers an Emotional High and They'll Love You For It - From time immemorial story tellers have used the emotional element to grab the listener or reader by the heart strings. And you know what? They love it! They actually want to me moved, excited, horrified, aghast at what your characters are going through. Here's how to give them what they want. As a general rule women want to be moved by love, sympathy, uplifting sentiments, incidents of caring and nurture, etc.
  • Ten Tips to Help You Finish Writing Your Novel - 1. Set aside a time to write and keep it sacred. Make this a time when you know you are at your best and feel most creative -- Saturday mornings, late at night, whatever works for you. Make writing a priority and arrange other parts of your schedule around it. 2. Remove all distractions while you write.
  • Throw in a Handful of Suspense to Keep Your Readers Coming Back for More - Whatever kind of book you are writing a dollop of suspense will do to your readers precisely what you've written the book for: so that they will read it and keep on reading it to the end! But my biography, or my non-fiction book on train spotting doesn't need suspense, surely? Oh, yes it does. But more about that later. Let's consider the two most usual types of suspense. First there is the 'signpost' suspense. This is where something happens, or is said, or is described that hints at some outcome, pleasant or unpleasant, in the future.
  • The Long And The Short Of The Short Story - Congratulations! You’ve spotted a great short story competition and decided to enter. You’ve had a go at a few short stories in the past and you’ve been wanting to tackle a novel for ages, but the idea was way too daunting so you’ve just shoved that to the bottom of your life’s “To Do” list. A short story is a much better idea, isn’t it? It’s just like writing a novel only shorter. Right? Not exactly! It’s been said that it’s not that a short story is long, it’s that it takes a long time to make it short. The idea that a short story is just a mini novel is an idea that will mean certain death to the success of your short story, before you’ve even written the first sentence.
  • Writing For Children - From a philosophical treatise to a picture book story I guess there is only one reason why anyone feels the urge to write. There is a story inside that is bursting to be set free. And once the word is out hundreds and even thousands of story ideas start vying for position, demanding to be heard.
  • Common Errors Writers Make - PART 1: WRITER'S BLOCK From Rita Jamison's Freelance Writing Class; Adult Education, Los Altos, CA, 2005 At one time or another we all experience "writer's block." We have ideas. We know we have a good story to write. We just can't sit down to do it or we do sit down and just stare at the empty page — for hours on end. What's holding us up? Why does this happen?
  • Write That Book! - You're inspired by an idea for a book and decide to sit down and start writing. You take your laptop to a quiet comfortable spot in your home and open up your document. Then, you stare at the screen.
  • Self-Doubt and Writers - The other day I was driving home from picking up some scripts to read when a great idea for a kid's book hit me. Excitedly, I turned the idea over and over in my head and began really taking seriously that I should start this book. Then it hit. The Don't Bother Train. You know the one. It sounds like this: All the stories have already been told.
  • One Solution To Beating Writer’s Block - There are many tricks and tips to help writers either beat the block or to ensure that they keep in the groove. One of the tools that I use and I borrowed it from my day job – is music. Yes, music. Some like to have background noise – as it allows them to focus on the job in hand. It is common for people to need the act of filtering out music to focus the mind.
  • Most Important Sales Letters And Stories! - Everybody loves to listen to a high-quality story but not many people tell stories in their sales letters and that's a shame since story telling is a sure-fire way of capturing a person’s notice. Selling and story telling are skills that we all possess but very few of us capitalize upon... Think about your life and the things you've done and you'll be able to come up with hundreds of stories, For more details visit to www.sale-trigger-generator.com all you've got to do now is package one and include it next time you write. Start off with something like "I can remember the day I... “and instantly your listener will give you their full attention, wanting to hear more.
  • Find Your Readers' Funny Bone and You're Set for Life - When was the last time you read a newspaper item that gave you something to smile about? It doesn't happen very often. So if you can bring some humour and happiness into people's lives, they will lap it up. This is where the writer of humour comes in. For the writer who feels he or she can contribute to the sum of human happiness, here are a few pointers on how to make a success of it. 1. The first thing to remember is that humour is subjective. What is funny to one person may easily leave another cold. This depends on both style and subject matter. There are two approaches you can take here.
  • Writing Fiction For Middle Graders, Part Two - In the last article we talked about whether to use an outline when you're starting to think about your newest story for middle graders and the best place to get ideas. Now let's turn to that all important first chapter and believability. The first chapter The most crucial part of a new book for a middle grader is the first chapter.
  • Serious About Serials - Are you seriously thinking about writing a serial? Did you write a book and then want to write another in a series? Do you have ideas about a storyline that go on and on? When I wrote my first book I was pretty well organized. But I had not intended to write a series. When I decided to continue the storyline and write a series I realized I needed to be much more organized. I had my plot summary and basic ideas, characters with basic histories, and a timeline. It was fortunate that I had created a timeline. I found this to be the most important document supporting my series. In a prior article, "Timeline for Your Book," I wrote about how to build a timeline. In that article I talk about using a spreadsheet program for developing your timeline.

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