Creative Writing Prompts: Shapeshifters, Real and Metaphorical
Exploring shapeshifters, both in the fantasy and real world, will add depth and interest to your writing. And who doesn’t want that?
Writing Craft
Looking for tips and articles on the fiction writing craft and techniques? The How to Write shop is a free resource of educational and easy to understand articles on both the craft of writing and writing techniques.
In the writing craft section of the How to Write Shop, you’ll find articles on: characterization, scene and sequel, showing vs. telling, plotting, character development and much more. These articles can help you with writing novels, short stories, poems, essays… or even non-fiction book.
The How to Write Shop knows that writing fiction is a craft. Learning the writing craft and writing techniques, however, can be fun! Check out these educational articles on how to write a book, essay, or screenplay and get writing your next best-selling novel today.
Finding Visual Creative Writing Prompts
Add aspects to your writing and story that you don’t yet know exists. Connect your inner world to inspirations from the outer world and see what brilliant “third thing” surfaces for you!
Character Traits to Push Your Character into Interesting
Characters without trouble who do no bad things (have no flaws) are boring. And will take your story nowhere. So what do you do? Push your character in every way that it counts.
Writing Tips: Stop Beating Cliches to Death
One of the writing tips you’ve most likely heard is probably to avoid clichés. This writing tip is so widely shared that it has almost become a cliché itself. So you know that clichés in creative writing should be avoided like the plague. But so often a cliché is the first thing at the tip of … [Read more…]
End of the World Writing Prompts
Nostradamus, the Bible, the Mayan calendar, no matter who you are or where you live, you have heard the end of the world prophesized. We’ve all seen the cartoon hippie with a sandwich board warning us “The End is Near!” and waited with baited breath when 1999 flipped to 2000. Then December 21, 2012 (the … [Read more…]