The craft of writing is overwhelming for many reasons. Where do you start? How do you write a good story? How do you make the characters pop off the page? How do you incorporate setting, genre, and mood into your stories? How do you create your own writing style? There are endless possibilities to the world of writing, and even the process of starting can break your mind. … Read the rest >>> “How to Start Creative Writing (Writing 101)”
Questions to Ask Your Beta Readers (Writing 101)
You’ve finished your novel. It’s amazing. At least, you think it’s amazing. Isn’t it? But no, really…. wait… is it??
What if you missed something important? What if you have flat characters? Or a predictable plot? What if people hate it?
These are all typical questions that run through a writer’s mind before publication.
So you’ll need a second pair of eyes to tell you if anything is amiss in your novel.… Read the rest >>> “Questions to Ask Your Beta Readers (Writing 101)”
1 Sentence 8 Ways: Answer (Writing 101)
How should you organize sentences for the greatest emotional impact? Let’s take a look at a dramatic sentence and rewrite it in a few ways in order to change the impact it has on the reader.
SAMPLE SENTENCE: All she wanted was the answer, but she had no idea how much she would hate it.
VARIATIONS:
- All she wanted was the answer. She had no idea how much she would hate it.
Writing as Therapy: Real Conversations (Writing 101)
What is the worst thing someone has ever said to you? What is the worst thing you’ve said to someone else?
There is always a haunting echo of a string of words that broke our hearts or that we have used to break the hearts of others. Apologies and reconciliation are not always possible in reality, but are always possible on paper.
Previously we discussed writing imaginary conversations in a fictional format as a form of therapy.… Read the rest >>> “Writing as Therapy: Real Conversations (Writing 101)”
Writing as Therapy: Imaginary Conversations (Writing 101)
INTRODUCTION
Human beings are complex animals that have the gift – and the curse – of multilevel consciousness. We have our immediate consciousness, which processes everything in the moment; and on top of that, we have the subconscious and the unconscious, processing things that we’re not even aware we’re processing.
Our brain is constantly processing these different levels of consciousness at the same time, and regardless of our maturity and wisdom, it’s impossible to process everything all at once.… Read the rest >>> “Writing as Therapy: Imaginary Conversations (Writing 101)”
1 Sentence 7 Ways: The Weather is Not Trivial (writing help)
How you construct your sentences – word order, sentence structure, punctuation, etc – changes the mood, translation, and reading of your sentence. These details are incredibly important for both communication and style.
I’ve talked about the importance of punctuation in my youtube video, How to Write a Sentence: Punctuation, and how it affects the style and reading of the sentence. I want to go over that a bit more by taking a sentence and writing it in a few different ways.… Read the rest >>> “1 Sentence 7 Ways: The Weather is Not Trivial (writing help)”