A house just a few kilometers away from the beach….will have views like this.
A Writer’s Rule Book
From Hunter’s Writing
Sound advice, but there’s a couple of points I don’t quite agree with.
Show, don’t tell - except there are times when you need an ellipsis, or to skip over something that is not relevant to the immediate plot. It’s up to you to choose when to show and when to tell.
Never start with dialogue - starting a story with a line of dialogue might be awkward, but sometimes dialogue is a good way to start things in medias res (Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island starts with ten lines of dialogue, without a single clue as to who is speaking).
Kids and animals can’t die - you don’t have to follow Hollywood rules. Children and animals are not immune to epidemics or accidents. If your story is set in plague-ridden 14th century Europe, for instance, the very real danger of sickness can make readers worry for your characters. If the universe you’re writing (historical or fantasy) has a severe food shortage, pets have a short life expectancy, particularly in cities. Maybe a better way to phrase this rule would be “Never make death gratuitous”.
Just my two centimes.
Back on the man crushes. LOVE a well dressed man. #suits #froffen #daysoffspentinbedwith #harveyspecter
Just had my weekly dose of Harvey Specter.
A Library for the Subway
A trio of students from the Miami Ad School—Max Pilwat, Keri Tan and Ferdi Rodriguez—have came up with an innovative concept that allows people to read the first ten pages of popular books while riding the subway.
Using near field communications (NFC) technology, commuters select the desired book from a list of popular titles and read its first ten pages—upon finishing, the reader will be informed of the closest library location from which they can pick up and read the rest of the book.
This is a simple but ingenious idea that can be adopted and adapted to encourage reading in the 21st century, when new technology is changing the way we consume books.
Camp Half-Hairondale: Kieran's Novel Writing Tips
If you need it :)
- Try to keep a bit of a routine. Know when you work best, and under what circumstances. Like, I work best from the hours of 7pm-12pm, however I also need to sleep. I do good in the early morning hours too. So I try to accommodate those hours as best I can (like becoming a…
Vacation Leav….ing for Good
Apart from the days that seemed like all I did was nonsense, I’m pretty much enjoying the fact that I can sleep in or choose not to sleep at all, playing video games and perusing ebooks and old magazines. I also found that my love for drawing died along with the realization that my innate ability cannot match my drive. What to do with the half-filled, ancient sketchbooks ,then? Burrrrrn!! Hahaha…
Off I go now to do more tedious grown-up stuff…
Why can’t I just do what I love and get paid tall stacks of cash in exchange???!
her majesty helps: Masterlist of Writing Help for Writers
*always adding more
General Writing Tips, Guides and Advice
- How to be Confident in Your Writing
- Start Your Novel Already!
- Why First Chapters Matter
- How to Outline a Novel
- Incorporating Flashbacks
- Word Building 101
- Common Mistakes in Writing
- Tips on Getting Started
- What Not to Do
- 7 Tips to Become a Better Writer from Stephen King
- How to Use Reading to Become a Better Writer
- Why Writers Must Read
- How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers
- 31 Ways to Find Inspiration for Your Writing
- 10 Tips to Write Fanfiction
- Writing a Blurb
- 10 Writing Tips
- Perfecting Description
- Point of View
- Speed Up Your Writing
- Recieving Bad News
- Useful Writing Apps
- Avoiding Clichés
- Writing Lessons
- Finding Inspiration
Plot and Conflict
- What is Conflict?
- Where’s Your Conflict?
- Adding Conflict to Your Scenes
- Guides for Using Inner Conflict That Makes Sense
- Plotting Your Novel
- Internal and External Conflict
- The Top Ten Plotting Problems
- The Elements of Plot Development
- Plot Help
- Writing a Plot Your Own Way
- Plot Development
- Develop a Plot
- Tension and Conflict
- Your Plot, Step by Step
- Plot vs. Exposition
- Plot and Conflict
Character Development
- How to Describe the Body Shape of Female Characters
- Character Apperance Help
- Words to Describe Voice
- Body Language Cheat Sheet
- Character Development Exercises
- 101 Character Development Questions
- Art of Character Development
- Introducing Characters
- Characters You Need to Reinvent
- Making Characters Likeable
- Heros and Villains
- Describing Clothing
- Understanding Body Language
- 100 Positive Traits
- Mental Illness in Writing
- Conflicts and Characters
- Indifferent, Distant Characters
- Bitchy Characters
- Describing Voice
- Being a Bitch
- Heartless Bitch
- Writing Nice Characters
- Character Questionnaire
- Mental Disorders
- Writing Characters with Mental Illness
- Writing Male Characters
- Playing Male Characters
- Breaking Sterotypes
- Characters with Glasses
- Rebellious Characters
- Writing Female Characters
- Writing Intriuging Male and Female Characters
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
- Placement of Speech Tags
- Grammar and Spelling
- Grammar Slammer!
- American vs. British Grammar
- HyperGrammar
- Grammar Girl
- Punctuating Dialogue
- How to Use the Semicolon
- Introduction to the Basic Rules of Punctuation
- Comma 101
- All About Dialouge
- 11 Grammar Tips
- Comma Usage
- Correct Use of Apostrophe
- Proofreading
- Transition Words
- 40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation
- Better Writing: Grammar & Spelling
- Semicolons and Colons
- Underlining and Italicizing
- Dashes and Parentheses
- Hyphens
- Apostrophes
- The Ellipsis
- List of 1000+ Adjectives
All About Names
- List of Names
- 100 Most Popular Names
- Sci-Fi Names
- Sci-Fi Names Part 2
- Name Berry
- Behind the Name
- Fantasy Name Generator
- 20,000+ Names From Around the World
- Victorian Era Names
- How to Choose a Name
- Naming Your Characters
- Give Your Character the Perfect Name
- Name that Character!
- 10 Tips to Name Your Character
Genre Based
- 20 Tips to Writing Love Scenes
- On Love And Sex
- All That Sex!
- Writing “Real” Men in Romance Fiction
- Kissing
- How to Write a Kissing Scene: Valentine Edition
- How to Write a Kiss? And Should You Write Sex?
- The Keys to Conflict
- Writing Gender-Specific Dialouge
- Things Smut Writers Should Know
- How to Write a Sex Scene
- 3 Secrets to Writing Sex
- Writing Love Scenes
- Why You Should Write Love Stories
- How to Write Horror
- Horror Sub-Genres
- Horror Plot Cliches
- 25 Things You Should Know About Writing Horror
- Plot and Character in Horror Fiction
- 7 Laws of Comedy
- 5 Secrets for Improving Comedy Writing
- How to Break into Comedy
- How to Be Funny
- Mystery Writing Lessons
- 10 Rules for Mystery
- Mystery Writing
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