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Now Write!: Fiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers

A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today’s best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil SuÃ¡rez, Margot Livesay, and more. What’s the secret behind the successful and prolific careers of critically acclaimed novelists and [...]

Writing Online Course: Your Best Option

Taking a writing online course is a great way to ensure that you are going to start things off right. If you’ve been thinking about writing online to earn money, then a course could be just what you need to get you going. Many of these classes are now online, making it a simple matter to [...]

How to Write a Fiction Novel

Writing fiction is not easy, and neither is developing ideas for a fiction novel. This is because the writer literally has to develop something from zilch. In spite of the difficulties encountered, writing fiction is not rocket science and many writers know how to write a fiction novel. Writing fiction only requires that that one posses [...]

Integrating Suspense Into Your Writing

Do you know how to nail your readers up into your writings? What does it take in order to read your writing into minutes rather than an hour? The secret is through suspense writing. Suspense writing is a very important component that builds up any mystery, action or adventure, crime, and even detective story writing.

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Writing 101: Start With the End in Mind (Write to Educate, Entertain, or Preferably Both)

What I am going to tell you here will be obvious to some readers, but to others, perhaps not. There are two objectives that any piece of writing has, only two, and this is true for either fiction or non-fiction.

All writing exists either to:

1. Educate (self or others); and/or,

2. Entertain (self or others).

That’s it. That is the bottom line. You can think about any piece of writing from the cave paintings in Lascaux France to the operators manual for the Superconducting Supercollider, and they were all written to educate or entertain. My view is that if the writing does both then it is better.

So what has this got to do with keeping the end in mind? What I mean is, have a clear objective when you start writing something, whether that objective is written down or just in your mind. A clear objective, a destination, saves time and makes your writing better. Let me give you an example from my own work. Continue reading Writing 101: Start With the End in Mind (Write to Educate, Entertain, or Preferably Both)

Writing a Great Novel-The Secret Every Writer Needs to Know

There’s nothing more important to writing a successful novel than identifying the key problem of the story. This article shows how easy it is.

Every writer wants to write a great novel, but not every writer knows the secret that can make the difference between a successful novel and a failure. The secret that every writer needs to know is that every novel is a mystery. I know that might sound ridiculous at first, especially if you’re writing a romance or a science fiction novel. At their core, though, even westerns and horror stories are mysteries. Continue reading Writing a Great Novel-The Secret Every Writer Needs to Know

Some Ideas About How To Write Fiction

A writer of fiction is simply a person who makes up stories. He or she is just a perfectly normal human being who has found out that they can put stories down on paper that make other people really interested, excited and amused.

Who becomes a writer? In the 20th and 21st centuries, practically everybody who has finally become a successful writer of fiction has started out in a different job, for example as a schoolteacher, a doctor or whatever. The reason is clear. You cannot “get a job” as a writer.

Let’s think about my genre, young adult stories – or some might call them “children’s stories.” Actually there is no such thing as a “children’s story”. Alice in Wonderland, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist (by Charles Dickens), Treasure Island (by Robert Louis Stevenson), Kim (by Kipling) and many, many more are for people between 5 and 122 years old.

So what I am writing about is not about how to write a book for children, or young adults, or whatever, but just about the nature of writing, as far as I understand it. My own books are intended as entertainment for people of all ages, at least for all people who have not forgotten what it is to be a child and to live in a world of adventure and excitement.

There is no recipe for writing of course. But here are some of my ideas and suggestions: Continue reading Some Ideas About How To Write Fiction

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