Blog Entries tagged 'writing tips'

Challenge = Opportunity

wordshop1@verizon.net — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Well... writing is all about what we know, right? Or so I was always told. And it's true that we reach into our personal experiences in life to create characters and stories that will feel real and resonate with readers.

But writing has a few lessons of its own to teach. The most important may be that the bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity.

Writing a story should never be "easy." If it's easy, something is wrong. The characters [...]

Where stories come from

wordshop1@verizon.net — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

One of the questions most frequently asked of an author is: Where do you get your ideas? And the answer is invariably: they're everywhere. From the back of the mind, from news items, from the world around us.

Just as invariably, that answer proves to be disappointing.

But there's actually no magic to story-telling. Psychologists have come to recognize that story-telling is how we create our own lives. It's the way we put information together into a nar [...]