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A Guide to Creative Writing
Writing Tips: Write What You Know
A common piece of writing advice is write what you know. When I first heard this advice, I thought it was odd. I don't remember where I first heard it, but I remember thinking...
Creative Writing Prompts for Sci-Fi & Fantasy Lovers
Today's post includes a selection of prompts from my book, 1200 Creative Writing Prompts. Enjoy! In the world of creative writing, we've only begun tapping the possibilities in...
Storytelling Exercise: Process
Today's storytelling exercise comes from my book Story Drills: Fiction Writing Exercises, which is packed with lessons and exercises for beginning to intermediate storytellers....
Creating Authentic Character Relationships
As storytellers, we often look for ways to make our characters as lifelike as possible: we give them internal struggles, external goals, difficult challenges, and hard choices to...
Types of Rhymes in Poetry
We're all familiar with rhyming poems. After all, these are the first poems most of us encounter as children, from the delightful stories of Dr. Seuss to the hilarious poetry of...
Punctuation Marks: Parentheses
Parentheses are among the most useful and versatile punctuation marks in the English language. They can be used effectively in both formal and casual writing, and the rules...

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