Have you ever thought about what type of language you should use in your writing? What about the style? If you haven’t, you should. Consider the following sentences: Dick, the local high school quarterback, was recently killed in a car accident. The town was left in sorrow today as Bronson High’s starting quarterback lost his life in a tragic car accident. Dick left behind a wife and two brand...

photo credit: Elrenia_Greenleaf You want to write, but how do you decide what to write? Perhaps you have sat down and tried to convince yourself that you were going to write non-stop for the next ten minutes. Ten minutes went buy, and you didn’t write much, or maybe you didn’t write anything at all. Has this ever happened to you? It has to me, and I know you feel horrible. So where do we start?...

Writing fiction is a lot of fun. Well, its a lot of things. One thing that can be particularly challenging about fiction writing is writing about magic, or some equivalent power or ability. Its not the dreaming up of special abilities or effects that is particularly difficult, but making those unique powers relevant to the story, and a meaningful part of the conflict within the characters. There are various...

Sometimes it’s hard to think of what to write. Let’s face it, we all go through it. Sometimes we need something to jolt our creativity and to jump-start our writing. Writing exercises are short activities that try to get you past the writer’s block you are probably experiencing, and back on track to do the kind of writing you want to do. Think of three of your favorite movies. Consider the main...

Are you looking for a way to improve your writing? Sometimes having a good writing tool can help. I recently discovered a neat little tool for the Window’s Vista sidebar. Merely download the egg timer, and it goes right on your Windows Vista sidebar. The sidebar is present while you are writing, so its always there. You merely click and drag the egg timer just like you do in real life, and the timer...

Whether you are writing a fantasy novel, or a sports column for a local newspaper, you can always stand to improve your copy. There are many writing techniques you can employ to improve the quality of your copy. Asking proper questions, for example, is a critical writing technique that you should consider using if you don’t already. If you already do go through a process of asking yourself questions about...

If you write, you have experienced “writer’s block.” There are many definitions for writer’s block, and frankly, they all amount to the same thing – you are not writing. Whether you have too much anxiety, you feel paralyzed, you don’t know what to write next, you can’t decide which project to focus on next, or _________ (fill in the blank), the point is the same –...