Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, said Thomas Edison. As a writer, you already know about the 99%. Writing is hard work. What about the 1%?
The ability to write good, believable dialogue is crucial to the creative writer’s craft. Dialogue breaks up a text and breathes life into characters.
Examine some ways to set down memories to evoke the important elements of life, the joys and pain of love, of friendship, of loss, of caring and anger, of heartbreak and celebration.
Creative writing, we all know, requires a bit more than creativity to design and invent characters that are three-dimensional and anything but transient. Though it often seems like work, proper drafting and creating of these characters can be, and should be, an adventure worth the daily grind. To help you in this venture, here are […]
I have a confession to make—I love grammar. And because I want you to love grammar as much as I do, I’m going to regularly talk about the most common grammar errors…and most importantly, how to avoid them. Grammar matters. A grammatical error in your manuscript will give an editor the excuse they were looking […]
Congratulations to John P. McHone, winner of Winghill’s 2013 Christmas Story Writing Contest with his Christmas tale, The Doll.
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