Point of view one is of the fiction writer’s most powerful techniques. Writing from your character’s POV means that you get inside the main character’s head, heart and gut –literally see the world through the character’s perspective. So, for example, when you are in the “bad guy’s” POV, be true to that POV. An excellent [...]

If you’ve always wanted to write a novel, but found the traditional structured process too frightening or overwhelming, maybe your imagination works in a more organic fashion like mine. In that case, start with your main character and the idea the character gives you for the plot. Then close your eyes, grab your notebook or [...]

It can take quite a leap to get from the written word to a movie screen. A screenplay, for all its clear descriptions of where characters are and what they say, has to work hard to meet the dramatic immediacy that we expect from films. 1. Stick To The Present Tense Writing in the present [...]

I started writing when I was in college. I started with live journal, which I cannot access now. It was not proper ‘writing’ but it was all blogs and poetry. I always thought that I was not much of a writer, since I am not a good reader also. That’s one of my weakness, maybe. [...]

If you are writing something that needs to have a professional feel to it, there is no better way to do than to use English writing templates. As with any form of writing, you always start by staring at a blank document. That’s the easy part. The hardest part in writing something is the part [...]

If your readers don’t care about your characters, you’re sunk. Readers don’t necessarily have to like all of your characters, but they have to care about what happens to your main character, or there’s no reason for them to keep reading.
Which means you have to care about your characters, and you have to know them, [...]

Everyone has plans to write the great American novel. In fact, most researchers believe that everyone has at least one great story inside them. However, you may be wondering, then if everyone has a great story, how can they get the story out?
The key to getting the story out is to organize your thoughts with [...]

One common element whenever human beings gather is the need to talk and share experiences. Often that need turns into something a little more fun, a little more dangerous — gossip. Gossip is often fun but it can also be dangerous because it spreads quickly (because it is fun) and often distorts or even completely [...]

Most creative writers have a secret desire to enter a writing or poetry contest at some point in life. Yet they stifle that desire by thinking they aren’t good enough to enter. It’s one thing to analyze your writing and know that you are not a Thoreau or Stephen King, and it is altogether another [...]

I’ve been following an interesting thread of conversation on a writing message board: a debate as to whether or not the practice of writing fan fiction is healthy for an aspiring writer.
By definition: “fan fiction” are stories involving characters from a television series or movie, written by fans and usually printed in underground magazines [...]