Keep A Notebook For Your Writing Ideas

When starting out writing [and even when established] it is good practice to have a structure in what you are doing when you are writing. I strongly advise that you write everything down. If you have an idea or even a part of an idea, it is surprising how easy that idea will disappear as your mind fills with other ideas and fragments.

Write Your Novel Step By Step (Part 15)

In writing my novel I learned a lot of things the hard way so I just wanted to put this series out there for would be writers to help them on their path to writing their own book.

Mediwrite

Using meditation to unleash your creativity.

Post NaNoWriMo Blues

How to handle the blues after the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).

5 Tips for Writing a Novel

Thinking about writing a novel? Halfway through and lost all your steam? Read on for 5 easy tips to focus your writing and get from start to finish.

Write Powerful Business Letters That Sell!

In addition to writing articles, the ability to write succinct and compelling business communications, ie.business letters and reports, is an absolute must in achieving credibility and commanding respect from those with whom you do business.

188 Stage Hero's Journey - Monomyth - Elements Of The World Of The Sword

Elements of the World of the Sword.

188 Stage Hero's Journey - Monomyth - Letting Go Of The Old Self

Every Hero has to let go of the Old Self.

188 Stage Hero's Journey - Monomyth - Afterlife Act

His receives a high status burial (is buried on high ground etc). In Out of Africa (1985), Denys is buried upon a hilltop.

New Technical Writer - The Four Dimensions of Your User-Reader

To create an effective User Document, the writer must know who he-she is writing for. This article presents four dimensions (Skills, Attitude, Knowledge and Experience) for describing the User of your product (your Documentation Reader), and how to build a Persona that turns your generic User into an almost-real person. The article stresses the need to actually USE this information when structuring and writing your User Document.

188 Stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth) - The Hero Is Sent On A Trivial Task

During the Period of Desolation, where the Hero is not committed to the Journey........

Writing Between Diapers

Tips for writer moms who have toddlers.

Real-Life Drama Writing

Writing drama stories can be difficult at times. There are days, even weeks, when our lives are mundane or down right boring. It can really put a crimp in your writing flow. Yet, drama is all around us. It is hiding just beneath the surface, waiting to spring out and grab us.

188 Stage Hero's Journey Monomyth - First Catharsis

The Hero has no need to kill the Antagonist (Gods need not kill) and lets him live or hesitates. The Antagonist is after all, a shadow of the Hero's Own Self. In Return of the Jedi (1983), Luke critically wounds Vader, he does not kill him.

How to Review a Play - A Guide for Aspiring Theater Critics

Writing a play critique is an exciting, challenging task which requires some special skills of the reviewer. While personal interpretation is always involved to a small degree, the art of being a successful reviewer is in being able offer an objective analysis of the play and its performance.