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Creative Writing Prompts Writing prompts are the lanterns that guide us through the labyrinth of inspiration. Imagine a blank canvas, pristine and intimidating in its emptiness. It is the daunting expanse that taunts the artist, the writer, the creator. Yet, introduce a prompt into this void, and suddenly, the canvas comes to life. Book Series…
Writing a story can be a fun and rewarding experience, but it can also be a daunting task. One of the most important steps in the writing process is creating your first draft. Here are some writing tips on ‘how-to write a story,’ to help you enhance your writing skills: Choose a Theme/Topic One of…
Landscapes are usually revealed in the form of descriptions. A single sentence often won’t do. If anything, it usually lacks vision. Try the tricks I came up with below to enhance your physical descriptions. Write using “visual” words. Metaphors and similes help enrich your writing by adding more “visual” words that you can “see;” which also…
So, you get an awesome story idea (like next-level awesome), but you can’t figure out how to start it. What should be the opening scene that will launch your story? The one that will buy your readers’ attention for pages to come? Below are 9 possible ways you may choose to launch your story. 1. Jump right…
As we all know (hopefully), twitter is an online news and social networking site. Users on Twitter post what they call Tweets, which are 250-character limit “posts” where users can post pretty much anything. Microblogging is making its way to the top. Ever heard of microblogging? Twitter is a form of microblogging. Microblogging is a…
Question something you overlook daily. Consider everything and anything. For example, coat racks. No one pays attention to a coat rack because it’s a coat rack. It’s not something we care to notice every day or even think about. It’s in the back-burner of our minds. But the person who questions this “normality” will create…
Don’t Write A Scene Without A Point After you’ve written a scene, ask yourself: what did the reader learn here? If your answer definitely moves along your plot-line and keeps your readers interested, then keep it. If not, remove it. There is no reason for your manuscript to contain any scene without a point. If…
In-depth characters are always more relatable. They have deeper and more intricate personalities which sometimes force the plot-line to improve for them too. Oftentimes this makes their personal mumbles over the page more interesting to read and improves the depth. You should probably introduce the below in your stories sooner than later. Introduce Their Physical…
For Online Content Writing “Optimize” Your Choice Of Words SEO keywords (search engine optimized keywords) are helpful to use in titles. They are, as their name suggests, words that are optimized to display in a user’s search results by popularity. They help search engines better match content to its user and figure out what is…
1. Keep it short and simple, BUT smart. Don’t make sentences too tiresome to read. Fancy words mean nothing if they aren’t understood. You don’t look any more “educated,” either. Using simple words allows you to be straight-to-the-point, and avoid sounding “preachy.” If you want to translate to most readers, keep your article at a…
Does it walk like a human? Does it talk like a human? Is it human? Well, at the end of the day, you don’t have to make them human, just relatable. Go People Watching No individual is the same so there is no wrong way to portray a character, but watching people helps you improve…
Discredit The Witness Just like in a real case, witnesses are crucial in discovering the mystery. Some witnesses even witness the entire crime. When they do, it’s even more thrilling when they’re discredited by something (or someone) and not believed by anyone. Witnesses can be discredited by many things. They could be (or seen as)…