HOW TO CREATE STRONG CHARACTERS FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END
Your audience has expectations; as they get to know your characters, they expect to relate to your character’s personality and story...
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Questions that guide your Memoir writing
You have been thinking about penning down a memoir. Maybe you are writing one already, or putting together a journal of memories.
You also have probably gotten positive feedback from your friends or writing circle. Or maybe you lack the zeal to write, but whenever you talk about the occurrences in your life, someone remarks that your story should be a book...
WHAT GREAT NOVELS HAVE IN COMMON
As a writer, there are moments where you wonder if your story is good enough to make a great novel. There are common elements that underlie every great novel, being able to identify these will help you create an outstanding…
HOW TO GET STORY IDEAS FOR YOUR BOOK
Writer’s write to readers. This means a writer’s aim is to interest their readers by conjuring story ideas that would interest readers. Here are five tips to help you generate intriguing story ideas for your book : 1) STORY IDEAS…
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR FICTION WRITING SKILLS.
1 ) BE REALISTIC IN YOUR WRITING: Drawing ideas from your personal life experiences is the best thing you can do to improve your writing. People enjoy reading what they can relate to; whether it’s an experience, feelings and thoughts.…
TOOLS TO HELP IN WRITING PROSE
When you are writing prose, you need a place to manage the parts and segments of your stories, make side notes, format your work and check grammar mistakes. There are a lot of tools out there to choose from.
ACTIVE VOICE IN STORYTELLING
In a sentence, the active voice refers to a situation where the subject of the sentence performs the action of the verb. For example, “The snake bit the boy.” The subject , ‘Snake,’ is performing the action of the verb,…
PLOTTING YOUR NOVEL
A plot is a systematic arrangement of events that take place in the story. It’s a run down of events in a book from the beginning to the end. It’s important that you get to know how to plot your…
How to Write a Memoir
𝟏. 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐊𝐄𝐘 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 MEMOIR This is the first thing you should do before you set out to write your memoir. It will guide you in your writing process. Messages are lessons you want your readers to…
Elements of Fiction Writing
1. 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 Every good story has characters that readers can feel. Characters are doorways through which readers live your story. In writing your fiction, you have to carefully carve out three dimensional characters with unique personalities. These characters must go…