• Feature Stories With Heart by Shannon Philpott - Feature stories have heart. Feature stories have warmth. Most of all, feature stories force a writer/reporter to evaluate the human side of a community - beyond the facts, beyond the opinions - to find the spirit of the story. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

• How to Blast Your Way Through Big Writing Projects by Akweli Parker - It's a day before deadline and everything seems more interesting than that whopper report you're supposed to be finishing. The yawning kitten video on YouTube. The Get Rich on the Internet online sales pitches. Folding laundry. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

• Make Metaphors Work For You by Marlene Caroselli - It's been said that he who speaks well, fights well. From a business-writing perspective, your "fights" are typically attempts to persuade or influence others. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

• Write to Excite, Delight and Entice by Suzi Elton - When you do your business writing, consider incorporating the principle of Excite, Delight and Entice. What this means is that you emotionalize your writing in such way that your readers cannot only picture themselves living a more satisfactory life, but can feel the excitement and satisfaction they would have. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) 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 |

• DIALOGUE WRITING RULES - WRITING BELIEVABLE AND COMPELLING DIALOGUE FOR YOUR CHARACTERS by Jordan Matthews - There are essential dialogue writing rules to follow if one expects to write a good story. Dialogue is what keeps the story interesting and moving quickly for the reader. It’s essential to a good story. However, there are dialogue writing rules that must be followed otherwise nothing is going to work no matter how good your words may be. ^pop (Added: 23-Aug-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 |

• 10 Snazzy Ways to Cure Writer's Block by Shreyasi Majumdar - Writer's block is a legitimate illness afflicting all pens at some point of time or the other. A writer should ideally be in control of the situation and never let THE BLOCK get to him. He should be able to search and dig, observe, think and create, no matter what the obstacle. (Added: 11-Nov-2009) Detail | Go to Article |

• 5 Easy Steps to Become Your Own Best Editor by Diane O'Connell - For many writers, getting that first draft down can give them a rush of excitement. The words flow freely, the ideas come at lightning speed, the book seems to be coming together just as they had in their head. But then comes the hard part: revising. (Added: 18-Dec-2009) Detail | Go to Article |

• 8 Hot Tips - Write it So They'll Read it by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts - Everyone suffers from writer's block sometimes. You sit at your computer and hope that pearls of wisdom will appear on your screen. Writing can be easy and you can get the results you want when you follow these eight basic steps (Added: 31-Dec-2009) 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 |

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