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Words on writing: the deep stuff

Creating a memorable story requires more than a toolbox of techniques. 

Words on writing: skills & craft

Writing secrets. Number 1: the skills & craft. 

Words on writing: tough love

If you are already a writer you might feel the need to gird your loins

Words on writing: the writer as artist

Not every writer shares the same motivations.

Fundamentals of creative writing: beginnings

If you feel you have to write the perfect first sentence before you can go on, you will never get beyond it.

Fundamentals of creative writing: endings

A story is a chain of cause and effect, with the end being the final link in that chain.

Fundamentals of creative writing: the novel

Don’t be fooled by the enormous volume of novels out there: writing one is a huge undertaking.

Fundamentals of creative writing: material

‘Where do you get your ideas from?’ is the question most often asked of writers.

Fundamentals of creative writing: characters

It is through your characters that readers experience the story; they are the actors bridging the world you create and the world of individual imaginations.

Fundamentals of creative writing: structure

All stories – even a joke (which is, after all, a short, short story) or anecdote – must have a beginning, middle, and end.

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