• How to Type Your Characters by Deborah Owen - Have you ever read a story with a good plot, but you went away feeling that something was incomplete? In all probability, the author failed to type his characters adequately and the result was a pack of shallow basket cases. NEW! (Added: 31-Oct-2008 Hits: 6 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• Writing Twists by Deborah Owen - Twisting the ending of a story is like putting icing on a cake, a cherry on top of a sundae, or nuts in brownies. It is the ultimate satisfaction. NEW! (Added: 13-Nov-2008 Hits: 6 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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 Hits: 697 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: 550 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: 329 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: 467 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: 430 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: 372 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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 Hits: 142 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: 186 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: 356 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

• 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. (Added: 9-May-2008 Hits: 122 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: 352 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: 378 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: 367 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Go to Article | Rate It

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