• Conflict in Your Stories is What Readers Long for by Mervyn Love - Keeping the reader engaged and immersed in a story is the aim of every writer. The answer is to give the reader what he or she craves for, which is conflict. NEW! (Added: 9-May-2008 Hits: 6 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• How to Grow Credible Flesh and Blood Characters for Your Story by Mervyn Love - Some writers make the mistake of thinking that a brilliantly conceived plot will make up for poor characterisation. It won't. NEW! (Added: 9-May-2008 Hits: 6 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• The Importance of Dialogue in a Stage or Screen Play by Joy Cagil - In a play, practically the entire story is carried out on the shoulders of the dialogue. Here, a writer who writes in many mediums needs to note that a dialogue in a short story or a novel tends to be quite different from the story told on stage or screen. NEW! (Added: 9-May-2008 Hits: 6 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• Use Emotion to Bring Depth to Your Descriptions by Mervyn Love - Most readers want to be captivated by several aspects of a good story. The plot, the setting, and the characters with their emotional highs and lows. But don't neglect to bring in some extra emotion in your descriptive passages as well. NEW! (Added: 9-May-2008 Hits: 6 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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. (Added: 2-May-2007 Hits: 390 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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 Hits: 202 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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 Hits: 305 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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 Hits: 275 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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 Hits: 235 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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 Hits: 30 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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 Hits: 200 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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 Hits: 218 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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 Hits: 230 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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 Hits: 242 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• CREATIVE WRITING TIPS - HAVE YOU ESTABLISHED YOUR MAIN CHARACTER AT THE START? by Nick Vernon - In the beginning of your story you have to grab your readers’ interest and sustain it till the end. Our hook is our character. Readers keep on reading to find out more about the character. To see what he’ll do in the story; how he’ll solve his problems. What his goals are and whether he’ll achieve them. (Added: 3-May-2007 Hits: 235 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

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