Every story has an emotional response to elicit Every story has an emotional response to elicit. When campers are sitting around a fire in the dark woods, they tell stories that generate fear and excitement; stories about psychotic killers with hooks for hands, and teenagers who pick up strange hitchhi......
Successful Plot Construction with This Simple Formula A cracking good plot is the aim of every story writer. Here we are going to look at a simple but clever formula to construct a plot for a short story that will put your work ahead of the rest.
Let's be clear: you don't have a lot of time to get the sto......
Persuasive Writing Strategies That Grab the Readers Attention and Get You Results As a writer, you have the challenge of communicating without feedback and without the benefit of voice characteristics, facial expressions or body language. Wow! That really changes the rules, doesn't it?
What this means is you have to understand your ......
7 Keys to Writing a Children's Book that Sells Like Hotcakes There are seven fundamental reasons that some books succeed and others collect dust on the author's bookshelf. These seven keys to success as an author are simple, obvious even, and yet in the midst of our writing many of us forget them.
We get so focu......
Creative Writing Awards - How To Win Short Story Competitions And Gain More Money A lot of people win writing awards and achieve a big hard cash income, year in year out. How do they do it? They understand what judges of writing contests search for.
Almost all writing award schemes, if well judged, will have demanding conditions fo......
