Every writer has his or her own process for catching creative ideas and turning them into short stories or novels. Watch this short video to see how one author captures his creative ideas. His process might work for you, too.
Sometimes it just takes a few changes to instantly improve your writing. Any of these 5 self-editing tips is easy to implement, but sometimes, we don’t think of these things on our own. Use these 10 tips to create a self-editing checklist to use each time you finish a first draft.
Try these Father’s Day writing prompts to write a new short story or even a poem to celebrate this special day for fathers everywhere!
Wondering where to find writing ideas for history articles? As writers, we find ideas all around us. Snatches of a conversation overheard in the grocery store, lyrics from a song, an article in the newspaper, a movie plot, some obscure information read in an old book, or an epitaph on a moss-covered grave—all of these…
Get a jump on the season with these 10 new summer writing prompts and visual prompts.
Improve Your Writing Skills and Instantly Write Better… It doesn’t take much to improve your writing skills. Here are 4 easy ways to strengthen your fiction or nonfiction and become a better writer instantly: 1. Comb through each sentence in the manuscript, looking for places where you’ve repeated a word several times. For example, I…
Writing Spaces The other day I posted this photo to my Facebook page with the following caption: I was getting a little writing done at the beach that day. And it’s true that I often “work” at the beach. That’s just one of the things I love about being a writer. I can work when…
Learn the Types of Journaling You Can Do to Enhance Your Creativity Whether you’ve never kept a journal or you’ve been journaling for years, you should join our new group for creative writers on Facebook so you can take part in our 21-Day Journaling for Creativity Challenge that just started. First, you’ll get a free…
Making the leap from mystery reader to mystery writer is huge. It’s practically the equivalent of jumping over the Grand Canyon. In fact, if you look too closely you might talk yourself out of jumping. Let’s assume you’ve decided to go for it and try your hand at writing mysteries. So how do you go…
Spring is the perfect time for a fresh start to your writing career.
Spring has sprouted in my garden. Tiny seedlings are popping up everywhere! It’s so exciting to see—especially one of my favorite flowers, red amaranth. There’s a carpet of one-inch seedlings near my garden path where I enjoyed the brilliant red flowers last year, all summer long. But there’s one problem. There are too many seedlings….
This week’s spring writing prompts are from Gladys Swedak. Although most of these are nonfiction prompts, you can still use them to come up with a new story or two if you get creative. Try it! 1. Easter is coming and you don’t want to spend it alone so you decide that you will take…
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