Writing

by: Scruffy Scribe What is a Premise? Your premise is your first expression of the Novel that you will create. Essentially the Premise of a story can be explained as, “What is at stake” in your story. Your premise is the foundation that you will build the rest of your story upon. The premise will […]

Seven Secrets Of Highly Creative Writers by: Steven Barnes The Lifewriting™ approach to your writing career demands a relatively high creative output. It isn’t designed to coddle people who nurse a single story for years before sending it out. But students often protest that they simply don’t come up with many good ideas, and that the

How to Be Patient – Patience Tests to Help You Hit Your Writing Stride by: Beth Rodgers Writing requires patience. It is as plain and simple as that. There are obviously moments of sheer inspiration, when words fly out of your head and onto the page in front of you faster than you could have

by: Laurie J. Brenner Have you ever found yourself stuck in your writing like a child on a rocking horse? Rocking back and forth, writing and editing, and wondering why your story doesn’t take you anywhere? As a writer for a local weekly newspaper, I couldn’t afford the luxury of writing and editing. I just

  Five Tips On Writing Explosive Action Scenes By Geoff Skellams Readers love action adventure novels. They don’t take a whole lot of brainpower to read and are a great way to fill in time while you’re sitting on a long, otherwise boring flight somewhere. Writers like Clive Cussler has a very lucrative business writing

Don’t Wait Until You Have it All Figured Out to Start Your E-Book By Lance Winslow If you are planning on writing an a nonfiction or fictional e-book then I have a question for you; why haven’t you started? It doesn’t take long to write an e-book, and I can tell you after writing 10

Finding Your True Voice by: Seth T Mullins There’s a prevailing sense in the world of writing that everything has already been said. Truly, it has. The human race has always experienced birth, the triumphs and tragedies of life in a transitory world, and death; and mankind has written of these experiences for as long as