Really creative writing

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The relationship between a writer and his readers can sometimes be  pretty uneasy.
Take this scene from a previous post: `He served with the (British `Redcoat’) army in India and America,  and was half-blinded at Saratoga when a Revolutionary musket ball passed across his face. He fell to his knees and blindly fired his musket into […]

Sometimes ideas for creative writing can be found on local newspaper web sites as well as on international news web sites.
For example a British local newspaper has just published an article on its web site about a local blogger who has been punished for criticising people in his local community ( click on blog story […]

It can be difficult to find ideas for a story when you’re involved in creative writing but here are a few tried-and-tested ways of finding them.
News stories  can provide ideas for stories, especially if they are human interest stories. The best places to hunt for these are the tabloid newspaper web sites. Visit them and […]

When you’re writing dialog it can be distracting if you have to constantly describe who is speaking it, it’s sometimes easier to write the dialog and explain who is speaking it later - I call this `raw dialog’.
This is a piece of raw dialog which I recently wrote. It’s a scenario from a story, a […]