This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. Rebecca Thornton’s new novel, The Exclusives, a psychological thriller set in a girls’ boarding school, is high on our TBR pile this month. Rebecca joins us now with a few of her top writing tips. 1. Don't try too hard when … [Read more...] about Rebecca Thornton’s Top 5 Writing Tips
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How to Create Brilliant Scenes in Your Stories
The scenes in your stories should flow one after another, like blocks of dominoes. You hit the first one and the rest follow until the end. But, if you don’t get that feeling when reviewing what you’ve written, it means you need to work on structuring your scenes. There is no predetermined length of a scene, or a number of words you must write. In fact, a scene can be shown … [Read more...] about How to Create Brilliant Scenes in Your Stories
How to Write Meaningful Conflict in Your Stories
There are many definitions of what conflict means in a story. Some writers even equate the word story with the word conflict, where story is nothing more than a series of events revolving around a single conflict. However, this kind of external conflict, where the hero battles a villain and either wins or loses in the end is not enough to make a story worthwhile. Every story, … [Read more...] about How to Write Meaningful Conflict in Your Stories
The Book That Changed My Life: Carol Wyer Picks Candide by Voltaire
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.Carol Wyer won The People's Book Prize Award for non-fiction 2015 and writes regularly for the Huffington Post. Her new book, Life Swap, is released on 22nd April. I have always been an avid reader. Evenings you would … [Read more...] about The Book That Changed My Life: Carol Wyer Picks Candide by Voltaire
How to Fully Unlock Your Creative Potential When Writing Your Stories
When you’re writing, if you are not able to go inside your story and inside your protagonist’s mind, and let go of reality for that period, it means your creativity is blocked. This can get to the extreme where it’s difficult to put words on the page. The story is there in your mind, you can taste it, but you’re unable to represent it so that others can enjoy in it. Below, we … [Read more...] about How to Fully Unlock Your Creative Potential When Writing Your Stories



