What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. Good fiction is comprised of many different elements: believable characters, realistic dialogue, and compelling plots. Every decent story has a beginni...
Play and pretend your way to writing ideas My little niece loves to sit with a grown-up book spread across her lap, reading a story out loud — except she can’t read yet. She’s makin...
Is it farther away or further away? Get the grammar rules here. Believe it or not, farther and further each have distinctly different meanings although people tend to use them interchangeably. And it...
Writing Forward named one of the 101 best websites for writers. Every spring, Writer’s Digest publishes a list of the 101 best websites for writers. It’s a huge honor for any website to make th...
Creative writing exercises: Moral dilemmas Today’s creative writing exercise comes from 101 Creative Writing Exercises, my recently published book on the craft of writing. This book guides writers th...
How do you classify creative writing, or do you? In creative writing, we talk about form and genre. Form is what we write: fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. Genre is how we further classify ea...
Proofreading and editing will help you improve your writing. From the archives… The best way to achieve better writing is through daily writing and reading, but proofreading and editing are nea...
Writing tips: write what you know. If there’s one piece of writing advice that took me years to truly understand, it’s write what you know. When I first heard this instruction, I thought ...
Creative writing prompts for travelers and dreamers. Travel and adventure are the themes behind some of the greatest poems ever written and best stories ever told. Blockbuster movies like Star Wars a...
101 Creative Writing Exercises Do you have a Kindle or smart phone? If so, you can get a copy of my book, 101 Creative Writing Exercises for just 99¢ now through Sunday 4/29. The paperback is also on...
Are you in search of ideas for writing a book? Every writer on the planet wants to write a book. Some have finished a manuscript and others are already published, but many more dream, talk, and think...
How do your characters interact with each other? Today’s guest post is by author Harry Bingham. New writers are taught a lot about characterisation. Writing courses and workshops often assign e...
Some of the most overlooked grammar rules and best writing practices. The more experience I gain as a writer, the more I’m convinced that writing is one of the most difficult skills to master. ...
Do you use creative writing to express yourself? A lot of young people first come to creative writing because they have a burning desire to express themselves. Emotions are running high, ideas are fl...
How to become a better writer. There’s more to writing than pushing a pen across a piece of paper, and there’s more to being a writer than having written. These days, everyone’s a w...
From 101 Creative Writing Exercises: Your Gang. Today’s writing exercise comes from my book, 101 Creative Writing Exercises. This book takes you on an adventure through the world of writing. You̵...
Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) “The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.” ― Adrienne Rich Last week, the bri...
Tips for providing helpful critiques to other writers. As a writer, you have to be thick-skinned. Professional writing is a highly competitive and saturated field where criticism is omnipresent for t...
Descriptive writing ideas. Do your readers see what you see? Descriptive writing is the art of painting a picture with words. In fiction, we describe settings and characters. In poetry, we describe s...
Do you break grammar rules in poetry writing? Accomplished writers respect the rules of grammar the way an acrobat respects the tightrope — grammar might be intimidating and complicated, but we...
101 Creative Writing Exercises I’m pleased to announce that three winners have been selected for Writing Forward‘s first contest. To enter the contest, participants were required write ei...
Creative nonfiction writing is a growing genre! Creative writing includes more than just fiction and poetry. Creative nonfiction is a wide category of creative writing, which includes several genres....
Do the tools you use help you write better? When I first started writing, it was just me, a ninety-nine cent pen, and a cheap spiral-bound notebook. Using those tools, I wrote dozens of poems, storie...
Win a free copy! Have you been thinking about picking up a copy of 101 Creative Writing Exercises but haven’t gotten around to it yet? Here’s your chance to get one for free. It’s W...
Third generation Amazon Kindle Over the past few years, e-readers have changed the way we browse, purchase, and read books. As with any new technology, there is resistance to adopting e-readers. Some...
Show, dont tell -- what does that mean? The first time I heard the advice show, don’t tell, I was young and it confused me. Show what? Isn’t writing all about telling a story? At the time...
Where do you get your character writing ideas? One of the most difficult things to execute well in a piece of fiction is a realistic character. We’ve all read stories in which the characters we...
What are the grammar rules surrounding split infinitives? It’s important that we, as writers, know the tools of our trade. Part of our job is to understand the mechanics of language, which includes g...
Haiku, from 101 Creative Writing Exercises. Today’s writing exercise comes from my recently published book, 101 Creative Writing Exercises, which takes writers on a exciting journey through dif...
Tips for writing scenes. Today’s guest post is by Art Holcomb, with some excellent tips for writing scenes. Scriptwriting – the crafting of screenplays, teleplays, stage plays, radio plays, comic boo...
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