Category: Writing
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Credit: last.fm Want Your Characters To Want
If you’re struggling with plot structure, take a playwriting class. One of the first things you learn, before stage directions and sharpening dialog, is developing a plot. It boils down to this: Character One wants…
Credit: SheKnows.com What Writers Really Want For Christmas
It’s hard to please a writer, especially during gift-giving holidays. Writers have hard-to-match taste in literature and win any witty holiday card competition. It’s a challenge to chisel through that introspective exterior and get an…
Credit: myrestaurantposts.com Stop Sounding Like a Jerk! Compliment a Writer with Class
What I hated about workshopping my stories during my undergrad days were the critics. I’m not a baby. I can take criticism any day of the week. I take it everyday at work whenever I…
Credit: YourWriterPlatform.com 5 Careers for Creative Writers That Actually Pay
In an ideal world, we would write creative stories and never set foot in an office. But since bills and birthdays exist, we need to step away from our writing desk and find a way…
5 Movies All Writers Must Watch About Writing
Hitting a wall with your writing? Your eyes too strained from staring at a bright screen or a blank piece of paper for reading? Sometimes what our writing needs is for us to step back…
How to Write a Fairy Tale
Last year in Germany, 500 new fairy tales were discovered. Now we have new fairy tales about King Golden Hair and a girl who turns herself into a pond. But writing fairy tales isn’t a…
Writing a Complex Plot: A Soap Opera Study
Here’s my confession: I love watching soap operas. It’s not what you think. It started last summer while I was still unemployed. My mom turned it on just to catch up on the whos and…
