Character Creation and Development: Patterns

How do you distinguish one character from another in your story? Do you actively seek to maintain that difference, or do they all blend into a half-this-half-that narrative voice? Do they all react similarly to what you throw at them, no matter who they are and how they‘re supposed to approach life? These are important [...]

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5 Easy Steps to Writing Rhyme-Free Poetry

Have you ever felt like writing a poem but been discouraged by the thought of proper form and rhyme and all those things that make up a good, solid work of poetry? Or have you been discouraged by the (silly) claims that if it doesn‘t have rhyme it‘s not a poem?   . . Let me help [...]

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Top 5 Things for (extremely) Shy Writers to Think About When Introducing Themselves and Their Work to Strangers.

I´ve always found it easy to talk and introduce myself to strangers, be it a single person or a room full of people. I realise that´s not the case for everybody and, as bravely posted on Writer´s Round-About, some people find it extremely hard if not terrifying. This can be a real problem for us [...]

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Vonnegut´s 8 Rules for Writing a Short Story

I stumbled across a blog where a girl (so sorry about that, Alex ) was talking about these eight rules of writing fiction, and I shamelessly googled the rules for my own thoughts. They were written by a Kurt Vonnegut who, according to wikipedia, wrote them in self-assessment purposes. He added that great writers tend to break [...]

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