• Four Ways to Start a Writing Group That Motivates and Celebrates by JT Long - No one should have to write alone. A group of writers meeting regularly to check progress, share secrets and celebrate milestones makes the process of joining words in sentences, paragraphs and stories, more productive - and more fun. NEW! (Added: 9-Oct-2009) Detail | Go to Article |

• 6 Tips for Your First Jab at Creative Writing by Mario R. Churchill - The world of creative writing is an ever expanding one as stories or genres continue to evolve in a natural reaction to the changes in time. Having confirmed writing skills, however, is not enough to succeed in creative writing. ^pop (Added: 2-May-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• HOW TO WRITE A MURDER MYSTERY by G.D. Baum - The murder mystery genre' is alive and well and living at an on-line bookstore just a mouse click away. How is it that this over-utilized method of story-telling has remained so fresh and compelling after well over a hundred years? The answer lies in the basics of writing. ^pop (Added: 12-Jul-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• A CLOSER LOOK AT CROSS-GENRE ADVENTURE WRITING by T.s. Trent - There are several elements of the action/adventure genre that make this sort of tale appealing. Let's take a look at the characteristics of an action/adventure tale. (Added: 1-Nov-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• A FEW KEYS TO WRITING EFFECTIVE DIALOGUE by Karyn Follis Cheatham - Every writer expends a great deal of creative energy developing a story line and limning well-balanced prose with evocative sentences. That's what writing is all about, after all. But fiction writers have an additional aspect to creation--effective dialogue. Very few stories, novellas or novels are without dialogue, and for some writers, this can be a stumbling block. (Added: 3-May-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• An Overview of the Romance Genre by Steph Burkhart - The romance genre continues to be one of the most popular fiction genres to date. Romances of all sub-genres have two aspects of plot that are consistent throughout. (Added: 27-Feb-2009) Detail | Go to Article |

• ARRIVING AT CREATIVE WRITING SOLUTIONS BY THINKING BACKWARDS by Jim Green - Here is a neat little trick I have employed all my life in resolving problems, in realizing goals, and finally as a tool for crafting fiction. I call it reverse plotting but it is in effect the act of thinking backwards to arrive at solutions. (Added: 3-May-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• BEING CREATIVE: THE RIGHT-BRAIN/LEFT-BRAIN MYTH AND FLOW by Carolyn Kaufman, PsyD - Most of us find it hard to imagine bestselling authors struggling with their manuscripts or suffering from writers' block. Instead we assume they have something special we have to find or develop, and we search in vain for the magical formula. (Added: 3-May-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• Bring Emotion Into Your Description to Grab Your Reader by Mervyn Love - Description is what writers use to colour in the basic elements of a story. It gives the reader a mental picture which they can carry that with them as the tale unfolds. Adding an emotional element grabs the reader more forcefully and pulls them into the story. (Added: 30-May-2008) Detail | Go to Article |

• Canine Characters by Vera Jane Cook - It's not easy to write dogs into the dialogue. They don't speak. But they do provide a wonderful opportunity for description and humor. In my books, they attach themselves to me as they do in life... (Added: 12-Mar-2008) Detail | Go to Article |

• CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT SECRETS - 7 STEPS TO DEVELOPING REAL PEOPLE WHO BRING YOUR FICTION TO LIFE by Corey Blake - Creating convincing characters that are believable takes time and discipline. Creating dynamically real individuals without imposing your own thoughts and impressions upon them is not easy to do, but this step is often the difference between a novel or screenplay that sits in a closet and one that finds its way around town and into the hands of audiences. (Added: 12-Sep-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• CREATE THE BIGGER-THAN-LIFE CHARACTER FOR YOUR NOVEL by Martha Tucker - The main characters in the bestseller-kind-of novel are bigger-than-life. No wimps here. You can’t just tell us what they do; you have to show us what they do. Prove that they’ve bigger-than-life. (Added: 3-May-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• Creating a Fantasy Realm by Amanda Schuller - Fantasy is, perhaps, the genre most associated with the untamed imagination. It's that place of no boundaries, a generic construct out of which you can create any tale your (perhaps diseased) brain can slap together. (Added: 17-Apr-2009) Detail | Go to Article |

• CREATING RIVETING ROMANCES IN FICTION: THE ANIMA/ANIMUS ARCHETYPE (PART 1) by Dr. Carolyn Kaufman - Many writers create love interests that reflect their own ideas of the "perfect" man or woman; the danger is that sometimes we're actually creating love interests for ourselves rather than for our characters. (Added: 14-May-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• CREATING RIVETING ROMANCES IN FICTION: THE ANIMA/ANIMUS ARCHETYPE (PART 2) by Dr. Carolyn Kaufman - Every archetype has a positive and a negative side. As we saw in the Three-Dimensional Villains article, the villain is the negative aspect of the shadow, while creativity is the positive. To further complicate things, everyone has both anima and animus--the anima is just more evident in the male and the animus in the female. (Added: 14-May-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

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