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 [...]

Writer’s Block? 5 Tips to Free You

Writer's Block?

Some of our greatest writers suffered from writer’s block. Before computers ever existed, writers like, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, all had bouts with writer’s block. Some call it writer’s anxiety; many scientists say it doesn’t even exist. However, if you ask most writers they will admit there are times when the [...]