Fiction

What is NaNoWriMo? Well its November is National Novel Writing Month! It involves a plan where in the month of November you write a 50,000 word novel in just those thirty day? Don't think it can...

"I could do better than this!" yells a man after wading through 300 pages of a novel. How many times have you said that? How many times have you heard someone else say that? While many people...

Poetry is a very unique form of expression, they are written in various forms and interpreted in may ways. Ideas for poems are also unique, in that, they can be conceived from just about...

You sit down and face the ultimate enemy for all writers; a blank screen. You want to write and yet you don't know what to write. Here's how you fight the blank screen.

For a writer, few things are as exciting as being "struck-by-lightning," the moment when an idea seems to fall out of the sky and is perfect for a novel, story, movie, etc. While this...

Anyone can read a book. Good or bad. But if you follow a few simple steps, you'll find that you can get so much more out of a novel. You can learn about yourself and the world around you. Each...

If you've ever told a story to your child, you may have wondered if you could go ahead and put it down on paper to save for him or her and for future generations. Perhaps you would like to write...

Story ideas can hit you like a miracle. Inspiration can come from anything or anywhere, and it can come at any time. But there are times when nothing happens at all and you are stuck. Whether...

Your local community, vacation spots, and workplace present a unique and diverse group of people that you can tap into when generating ideas for the setting, plot, and characters for that short...

If you would like to write children's fiction, but seem to lack ideas, don't worry. There are plenty of ideas available to you, if you take the time to do the research. Here's a couple of ways to...

There are many ideas out there waiting to be written down. If you have a great idea, you should plan on getting it on paper. Writing a story can be difficult, even a story about a topic you love,...

Women's fiction contains, mystery, suspense, drama, comedy, heartbreak and sometimes love. It's a title that covers a broad range of books and the ideas can be endless. Below are some tips to...

Writing is a creative challenge. Stories can come from many sources at any time. Here are some ways you can start brainstorming your ideas.

You might be surprised to learn you have short story ideas just waiting to come out on paper. It might not feel like you do. In fact, you might feel extremely frustrated trying to come up with an...