If it were easy to write a book, everyone would be doing it and fewer would be talking about it. To separate yourself from the mass of truly awful wannabe writers out there, you’re going to have to do something different – learn the craft. I know, it’s a crazy idea to actually achieve skill at something before inflicting yourself upon the rest of the world.

The desire to write isn’t enough.

You’ve got to dig deep into the language and figure out why it works, when it does, and how you can replicate it. Do you pick up a…

Is the main character of your story a sweet, caring person?  Was the divorce all her husband’s fault?  Was she right to set fire to his car?

Let your readers make up their own minds, based on the evidence.

Think of a courtroom.  The defendant insists he is innocent of killing his business partner.  However, certain suspicious details come out in the trial.  For instance, he wrote a threatening note to his partner the day before the crime, he was identified running away from the crime scene with a bloody axe in his hand, and the police later found…

Both are essential, vital, germane for good creative write-ups and emanate from a powerful imaginative bank. Day dreaming is perhaps one of the trace elements in the imaginative bank. The Imaginative bank of a writer is filled with rich deposits, primarily from the literary world. As a creative writer, the golden rule is “let your imagination positively run wild” with the aid of the aforementioned elements. Below is a simple example of how I’ve used my imagination to describe an unfolding event that paved the way for introducing a Nigerian movie legend :

The Movie Colosseum was unusually filled…

Like many English teachers, I have used pictures, poetry, artwork, short stories, neighborhood maps, and newspaper articles to prompt student writing. Music videos can also generate thoughtful and creative writing. Abstract, artful videos have proven potential for inspiring student writing and, while the music can be stimulating, muting the sound on a music video can bring the visual imagery to the forefront.

Narrative music videos often prove apt at prompting student writing. As with writing prompts that move young writers to pick up where a short story or novel left off or to write the back-story of character, narrative…

Creative writing is all about playing around with words on any given subject. It allows you to let your imagination run wild. Those of you thinking of writing your first novel tend to have that one vital ingredient required, an active imagination. It is through the power of that imagination that your first novel will be created.

More often than not when thinking of creative writing, we tend to believe it’s only for certain people when really anyone can do it. It’s a great release for your passions and thoughts, giving you an ideal opportunity to put down all…

Are you interested in an extra income and that too just by sitting at home? Then you can easily take up one of the online jobs that are available these days. There are so many jobs that you might think confused. It is always better to choose the job according to your ability.

You might have come across the jobs where you have to write articles. If you are interested in getting into article writing then you must make sure that you have certain qualities in you.

First of all you a good communication skill is very much necessary.…

We all as human has once in a our life had an experience good or bad worth sharing with the world or the immediate environment we live in but can not do so just because we had not learn how to put story or note down in writing for the public to scrutinize our either good or bad writing ability. While some of us will talk of how busy our day or time as and will always be to sit down in classes that offer help as regards writing skills and becoming a writer.

Worry no mare as these…

Creativity is a subtle and magnificent dance between the rational and the intuitive, between the left and right parts of the brains, between technique and imagination. Both partners in this dance are absolutely necessary and are needed in equal proportion, which means that imagination is not more important than technique and visa versa. If you only live in the imagination, you will never get organized, you will never complete your story. However, if you start from the rational, linear, organizational part of the process, ( ie. Gotta have the perfect opening sentence and first paragraph… better yet, an outline…)…

I believe creativity is intimately tied up with higher self esteem and emotional healing – at least for some of us. When I started to feel good about me and trust myself and didn’t carry so much old baggage, I began to be willing to write and take myself seriously enough to write a book.

Funny thing is when I was in school I loved my English classes but was always critiqued by teachers for my ability to speak well about what we read but my very limited writing ability.

I write poems, little essays and comments on life.…

When I hear about creative writing, I feel as though lighting would struck and stones would turn into toads or diamonds, just like the fairy tale I read when I was young.

Creative writing is sort of happy-ending fairy tales and sad fiction stories that trigger blood out of flesh and broken bones.

Of course, the mechanics of writing can be taught, but creating something is another story. You cannot teach someone how to be an artist. But you can always help someone write better.

What is Creative Writing?

From an ordinary writer’s point of view – creative writing…