Storytelling is also a craft. Good stories are entertaining, educationl, universal, and memorable. Many elements of storytelling such as narrative, language, dialogue, drama, character, conflict and resolusion can be learned and mastered. Start working on these elements from here.
We tell stories all the time. At the dinner table, around the watercooler, in the…
Scott Harrison was sitting in the restaurant of an Ethiopian inn with a few people…
If you have been following me on the intranet you would have noticed that I…
I have been keeping a swipe file even before I knew what a swipe file…
It is cold, windy and dark. A few people are sitting around a fire. They…
For the past few days, I have been working on the character development of my…
When I started writing my first novel, I didn’t have any story. I just had…
I wish someone had told me how to outline my novel when I started writing…
I must admit that my approach to novel writing so far has been wrong. So…
Many times we can’t figure out when an article or story should end. The same…
Comic writer John Vorhaus says in the book The Comic Toolbox that you don’t need…
For some time I have been trying to figure out a way to blend my…
Writing is a challenge even for the best of the writers. For beginners, the undertaking…
Dear Creative Souls, Yesterday, while waiting in the reception area of the local hospital, where…
Who am I? What is my message? What is my writing voice? I had never…
You think there is a book in you. It might be a memoir, or it…
I was going through my old journals and discovered that my best writing was when…
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Now that NaNoWrimo is close to finish, I am ready to come out of self-imposed hibernation feeling relieved and ecstatic. Just short of 6751 words to win the challenge at the time of writing this post, I am fairly certain that I will be able to knock these down in the next two nights. Now […]
NaNoWriMo has started and this year I am writing a non-fiction book. I am a proud participant in the program for eight years. This year my strategy is to write 600 words in the morning, 600 hundred during the day and 600 in the evening. I must say, it is working like magic. Photo by […]
Reading and writing are two integral activities for writers. A writer must read and she must write. But lately I have found that more I read, less I write. Why is that so? There are a few reasons for that. One, I get carried away, one article leads to other, one link has ten more, […]
For the last two weeks, I have been talking about everyday stories. Here are my tips on finding stories in your daily lives. 1. Become a collector of stories. You will not only find enjoyment every time you read them but also will learn how to write them. Stories are all around you, in newspapers, […]
Everyday stories should be written in the simple everyday language that we all use. As Phillip Berry Osborne puts it: “Among most writers, there’s a natural tendency to get too exquisite and ornamental in their prose. Such writers spend all their time trying to pound the pig iron of language into the bright toys and […]