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Yeah. So this is a REAL chat conversation between me, my teacher, and a classmate in a creative writing class. We're supposed to write a one act play, and I ...

It’s funny how we spend so much time on how to write stories, and yet there is hardly any information about how to write a proper critique. It’s kind of ...

A Musician's Tip to Writers Playing music harder than it looks. Fast-paced music, strangely enough, is not the hardest thing to play. The hardest songs are the slow songs which ...

First you have a character so self centered he thinks the world revolves around him. He is disillusioned and whenever he tastes failure he gets all fussy about it, therefore ...

For some strange reason, I have read many stories where the mysterious characters are alwasy dark and mysterious and wear cloaks because they are obviously so dark and mysterious. And ...

What do you think makes a good girl character? Is it the usual 'staying true to herself' or 'proving she's just as good as the guys'? And more importantly, what ...

Writing to music is usually the best way to go. It can drive you, stimulate your thoughts, and encourage a creative process. However, proofreading to music can be deadly. Not ...

For those who are not familiar with "The Princess Bride," it is a good movie complete with plenty of fight scenes, a bit of romance, and everything you'd want in ...

When you write a story, one of the first things you want to do is to use a word other than "said." After all, said is a boring word. It ...

There are a lot of people who think that titles really don't matter. It's almost as if they think the title and the story exist in two different worlds. So ...

One of the reasons why writers don't want to extensively edit their work because it's SO HARD. I'm serious. Some editing, for me, is easy to do, but to rewrite? ...

Okay, I was getting really hung up on this at first. I mean, I had this fabulous idea for a novel, yet it took me months to write a chapter. ...

Too often, as story writers, we don't write. Instead, we procrastinate using in some very creative ways. "Before we can write," we tell ourselves, "we have to come up with ...

The most common question I get as a reviewer of fiction isn't about whether I can review work. Nor is it about grammar, description, or any other common writing problems. ...

One time, I emailed a chapter of my story, FREAK to another writer. She looked at it, and this was her response: "It was a good boring chapter." Boring??? I ...