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If you have too many ideas, chuck them in an ideas box (a shoebox or something like that). That way, you can save all the good stuff for when you ...

Why do you need the lyrics anyway? Are they absolutely crucial to the story or reveal something absolutely crucial about a character? If they are, go for it! Otherwise, ditch ...

Yeah, great work! :D Additional tip: Quotations from the story always help. Focus on several snippets or short gobbets that you can base the main points of your review around.

It's not disastrous! Anything can happen in the world of fiction. You just have to make us as readers buy into the fiction.

I would love a good ghost story! I haven't heard/seen/read that many that really send a shiver down your spine!

Why not try writing back to front? Or write the beginning and ending first and then the middle? You don't have to write the story in the order it will ...

You could pose questions: Why is this character in this place at this time? Who are they going to kill? What is their motivation? (Not literally, of course, but things ...

Pretend you're making a documentary series about the world and write what you would include. Alternatively, write an encyclopaedia for your world. Think about history, geography, culture, literature,

Ask the question "What if...?" or "What would it be like to...?" once a day. Write for five minutes. Who knows, you might find the germ of an idea buried ...

1. Get another person (preferably someone with a mild interest in writing like your dear self) to look at it. 2. Use spellchecker/grammar functions on Word (bit mechanical, I find, ...

I'm entering for a poetry competition next year and the theme is 'Doubt.' It's quite a complex but interesting topic; how would you tackle it, or difficult themes in general?

The characters generally come to me first and then the plot. I don't really know much about the people until I start writing; I tend to concentrate more on the ...

Never think that the idea is silly. Not for one moment. If you don't believe in the fiction, neither will the audience. "Yes, Cinderella, you can go to the ball. ...

Looks awesome! Cheers Griff!

Vomit write. Make up silly stuff, nonsense. The idea is not to focus on getting good stuff on the page, but to get you writing in the first place!