Common Mistakes Beginning Writers Must Avoid

Lengthy Paragraphs

When writing your novel or short story, it’s important to keep in mind how your reader may be affected by the length of your paragraphs. Long, drawn out paragraphs are tedious to read—more often than not, your reader will get discouraged when presented with  never ending blocks of text, and put [...]

Writing a Short Story – 5 Key Steps

Writing a short story is quite different than writing a novel.  There is the time factor and word usage to take into consideration. It takes discipline to keep your short story brimming with exciting life experiences in as few words as possible.   Here are five key steps in writing your short story.

1. THEME

The theme is [...]

Writing Dialogue – 7 Crazy Ideas That Work

When you think about writing dialogue as simply giving a voice to the different characters living inside you, writing becomes an exciting journey and very rewarding.  Here are a few thoughts on writing dialogue.

1. Characters

The characters we create come from somewhere inside us, in all that we are, and all that we know. When we [...]

Writing your Novel – Five Golden Rules

Five Golden Rules
1. Write five days a week

The key is consistency.  Write 300 to 600 words a day, five days a week; more is better.  Jot down ideas during moments away from writing.

2. Know Your Characters

Fiction writing is an art; your story, your characters must be created and molded out of your [...]

Five Reasons Why I Love to Write Fiction

Since this is my first post, I thought I’d start with a subject that I’m most passionate about …  fiction writing … why do I love it so much?

Marlene Cronkhite

I love the Suspense

Creating a story with dynamic characters and a definite stream of uncertainty, danger, doubts, and cliffhangers, is [...]