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April 20, 2008

Problem story

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Quite often writers are fascinated by a phenomenon - by an event which is so unusual they feel they just have to write about …

April 12, 2008

Real-time story development part 3

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This part of the series which continues from Real-time story development part 2 investigates …

April 10, 2008

Real time story development part 2

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I didn’t choose the theme for `…

April 9, 2008

Real-time story development part 1

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This article is the first of a series of `real-time’ articles about story development, using as a model a …

April 5, 2008

Journalism and creative writing 2

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In journalism and creative writing part 1 I said that journalists `scan ahead’ when they are writing …

April 2, 2008

Journalism and creative writing

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It’s sometimes said that journalism is useful training for creative writing, because journalists have to use an economical but appealing style of English.
Economical in …

March 8, 2008

Smoking story potential

Filed under: creative writing articles - 08 Mar 2008

All stories should have a theme and smoking could be a good theme for a story
It’s of our time, it’s a current issue, people are interested in it. They’re interested in the effect that it has on people that smoke, the effect that …

February 15, 2008

please please me

Filed under: creative writing articles - 15 Feb 2008

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 …

February 13, 2008

Finding story ideas 2

Filed under: creative writing articles - 13 Feb 2008

blog story idea
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 …

February 11, 2008

finding story ideas

Filed under: creative writing articles - 11 Feb 2008

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 …

February 9, 2008

writing raw dialog

Filed under: creative writing articles - 09 Feb 2008

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 …

February 8, 2008

writing adventurous description part 2

Filed under: creative writing articles - 08 Feb 2008

In writing adventurous description part 1 I looked at the way that two famous writers use adventurous description to describe major cities.
What if they are like a couple of intrepid literary explorers who have explored all …

February 7, 2008

writing adventurous description

Filed under: creative writing articles - 07 Feb 2008

Creative writing obviously involves writing description and although most writers tend to write what might be called `conventional’ description others are more adventurous
For example, the American writer Thomas Harris uses adventurous description in (at least) one of his novels when he …

January 16, 2008

Writing style comparisons

Filed under: creative writing articles - 16 Jan 2008

Comparing the writing styles used  in article writing and in fiction or story writing
An article writer might want to make this statement in his article: `Studying for a career is the key to escaping from your surroundings.’
A fiction writer could do the same as …

January 7, 2008

Chancy theme change

Filed under: creative writing articles - 07 Jan 2008

British redcoatsThe theme of Smoking Story is mostly romantic, with some commentary about smoking. In Smoking Story Revisited there is more description and the style …

January 3, 2008

RSS or really short story

Filed under: creative writing articles - 03 Jan 2008

Is it possible or desirable to write a story that has sharply defined characters, dialog, description, a storyline, a conclusion and is no longer than a blog post?
These blogstories, blories, blogtales, blales, RSS (really short stories)  (I’m desperately trying to …