All posts tagged "advice for writers"

  • Try These Writing Exercises To Get inspired - Writer's Life.org
    Try These Writing Exercises To Get inspired

    Writing exercises are a great way to practice and hone your writing skills. They can also be extremely useful if you haven’t written for awhile and need to try to get back into a writing routine. Writing...

    • Posted August 27, 2016
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  • Fall in Love With Writing Again - Writer's Life.org
    Fall in Love With Writing Again

    Sometimes writing is hard. You get to a point where you feel a bit ‘done’ with it all. Every time you sit at your desk to write, instead of feeling excited, and bright with anticipation, instead you...

    • Posted August 26, 2016
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  • How To Experiment With Your Writing - Writer's Life.org
    How To Experiment With Your Writing

    Writing is all about being creative, and with creativity comes trial and error. It is always good to experiment with your writing - it keeps those ideas coming, helps you improve your writing technique and perhaps even...

    • Posted August 25, 2016
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  • How Staying Healthy Can Make You A Better Writer - Writer's Life.Org
    How Staying Healthy Can Make You A Better Writer

    Writing is a fantastic job, it’s creative, exciting and can be incredibly rewarding too. However, there are also some downsides to being a writer, ones that perhaps you simply take for granted as being part of the...

    • Posted August 25, 2016
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  • How To Write Characters Based On Real People - writerslife.org
    How To Write Characters Based On Real People

    As writers, we have all heard the age-old advice ‘write what you know.’ It has been drummed into our heads so many times it sometimes feels impossible to forget. Of course, we are not meant to take...

    • Posted August 24, 2016
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  • Why Writing Short Stories Can Make You A Better Writer - Writer's Life.org
    Why Writing Short Stories Can Make You A Better Writer

    Often people believe they should only stick to one form of writing. Simply keep to one and try to perfect their craft. If you are a novelist, then you should only write novels, a poet, only poems,...

    • Posted August 23, 2016
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  • Simplify Your Story: How To Avoid Complicated Prose - Writer's Life.org
    Simplify Your Story: How To Avoid Complicated Prose

    One of the worst things someone can say about your creative writing is that it is ‘overwritten.’ This is where you write too elaborately or descriptively and the result, rather than enticing your reader into your ornately...

    • Posted August 22, 2016
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  • Is It Cheating To Pay For Writing Help? - Writer's Life.org
    Is It Cheating To Pay For Writing Help?

    Writers are both proud and nervous creatures. We are fiercely protective of our writing, yet terrified of sharing it with anyone. Our every dream is tangled up with the idea of praise and success for our work,...

    • Posted August 21, 2016
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  • Are Your Story Ideas Good Enough? - Writer's Life.org
    Are Your Story Ideas Good Enough?

    There is nothing quite as enjoyable as having a brilliant moment when you realise you’ve got a good idea for a new story. That sudden thought ‘I could make something out of this’ or the urge to...

    • Posted August 21, 2016
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  • Why The World Needs Writing - Writer's Life.org
    Why The World Needs Writers

    I don’t know about you but there are times when I sit down to write and think to myself ‘what is the point?’ Admittedly these are times when I am feeling particularly sorry for myself, but I...

    • Posted August 19, 2016
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