101 Tips For Writers
I got tired of reading “Five Tips That” and “Ten Tips This,” so I figured I would outdo them all and come up with not five, not ten, not fifty, but 101 Tips for Writers.
For your convenience, I have separated the 101 Tips for Writers into fifteen general topics: Set Up, Brainstorming, Pre-Writing, Beginning, While Writing, Descriptions, Characters, Dialogue, Grammar & Word Choice, Ending, Editing Process, The Review Process, The Post-Review Process, Beating Writer’s Block, and General Tips.
These tips come from my own experience with writing, which for the past few years has mostly involved office memorandum and essays for law school. So as you would expect, the tips really apply to a large range of disciplines from creative fiction to memos. Of course, it is all written with an audience of young writers ages 13 to 25 in mind.
By the way, this is only the prelude to a much bigger resource that Firestarter is working on now.
To view the 101 Tips for Writers, go to:
http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/101tips.php
A .pdf version is also available at the top of the page.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:50 am
Hehe, I cutted out at least a thousand words from FREAK just by getting rid of most of the “and thens.”
But I think “towards” is American, no?
September 17th, 2007 at 12:56 am
It has become acceptable to use ‘towards’, but it’s still viewed as bad grammar in a lot of circles. Best to avoid it as ‘toward’ means the exact same thing.
September 17th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Eerie.
I check out a book featuring 101 tips for writers and BOOM! There’s this.
Although the book did inspire me to rearrange the furniture in my room… what’s it called? Feng shui?
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October 16th, 2007 at 5:04 am
Great tips!! LOL…I like “miss steak”.
October 21st, 2007 at 12:21 am
Wow! who knew that there were over ten writing tips?lol. I loved your tips and am going to use them everytime that I write.
January 20th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Just thought I’d drop by and say that I read the tips a few months ago. Pretty good. Now, let’s see you write 201! Lol. Thanks.
(I printed them out for my convenience. Hee hee!)
March 25th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Your tips really helped me, rethink about my writing, it made me step back and rethink the beginning to my book. Thank you!!