There are more than 2 billion websites on the planet. To get readers to stay on yours and to return, you need to offer what nobody else does – or at least in a way that no one else does. That’…
“I don’t believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because thatR…
Straight-up information about a character or a setting rarely marks a great way to start a story. Instead, the opening lines need to hint at some mysterious element.An example of straight-up inform…
Once you’ve come up with a great story idea, always take a good amount of time thinking about how it will unfold. You can do so by outlining the story.If you’re among those who eschew outlining, do…
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” – George Bernard Shaw“You can’t write a story until you’ve felt. Breathe it…
Once you’ve come up with a great story idea, always take a good amount of time thinking about how it will unfold. You can do so by outlining the story.If you’re among those who eschew outlining, do…
• Don’t leave reader in fog with vague descriptions• Use concrete details• Examples of “concrete details”• Use sensory details rather than internalized ones• Appeal to sense of so…