Let’s look at the differences between tailer, tailor, and Taylor with Grammar Rules from the Writer’s Digest editors, including a few examples of correct usages. I must be in a fashion mood or something, because we were looking at the differences between sew, so, and sow last week. Now, we’re jumping over to another group […]
The article Short Story Tips: 3 Successful Strategies to Write a Short Story appeared first on The Write Practice. Knowing how to write a short story seems like it’s a no-brainer. They’re short; how hard could it be? However, once you start writing a short story you’ll probably realize that you don’t know how to […]
By: Tan Bo Yan When the door first flung open, I was greeted by the most welcoming sight. Glittering pearls floated through the hallways, the smell of fresh poppies filled the […]
By: Stephen Kingsnorth Genes With Pops, my grandmother made this,a pattern, poppies, spreading wild,our family, a tribe of aunts,count cousins, crawling, climbing trees,and siblings, toddlers up to teensa tapestry of what could […]
By: Harvey Huddleston At ten steps – fifteen maybe – Father Ivan turned back but the barrack was already gone. Snow blasted east and west and north and south and up and […]
By: James Bates Autumn EquinoxEarth aligning with the sunSunlight so precious. Burnished orange sumacFiery in day’s last lightWarming to the soul Bright harvest moonlightLunar magic raining downHelping dreams to grow.
If you want to make serious progress as a writer, you need to treat your craft like any other serious area of your life. It’s not enough to treat writing as a haphazard hobby that you dip into and out of whenever the urge takes you. Instead, if you want to grow and evolve both […]
Of all the types of writing work out there, being a ghostwriter is easily the coolest-sounding job. If you’ve been around the world of writing for some time, either from the perspective of an active writer or just that of a reader, you will almost certainly have heard of the term. But what exactly does […]
Go deeper into the minds of your characters where motivation lives with this advice on writing characters from psychologist and author Rebecca Alexander. We’re all psychologists. We’ve been observing human behavior since we’re born, and writers especially collect human interactions like magpies collect shiny things. But knowing a little about the science of psychology has […]
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, have a character (or characters) deny the objective truth. Plot twist story prompts aren’t meant for the beginning or the end of stories. Rather, they’re for forcing big and small turns in the anticipated trajectory of […]
By: Kushal Poddar Monsoon Markets Metaphors On the monsoon mossy market wallsun lays down its merchandiseone by one. Already tired are its flesh.Clouds gossip about the imminent reclining.The shine stares me blind. […]
By: Tom Ball Characters: Friedrich Nietzsche’s clone, who is a well-known philosopher, in his own right. The actor has a very large mustache like the original. A middle-aged man. Marilyn Monroe’s clone, […]
