Very often, you hear all about how positive personality traits will help your writing career. You are told to have more patience, to persevere, to work hard. No doubt all that is good to have and will help your career in the long run. But there are ways to turn your negative traits to your advantage. No one is perfect, but if you know how to work with what you have, you can … [Read more...] about 5 Personality Flaws That Could Be Good For Your Career as a Writer
Writing & Editing
Josa Young’s Top 5 Writing Tips
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. 1. Discipline yourself to read things that aren’t ‘easy’, particularly poetry – try AE Houseman and Louis McNeice. Buy tatty old Penguin Poets from the 1960s in charity shops and gulp down metaphors. Go outside and read it out … [Read more...] about Josa Young’s Top 5 Writing Tips
How to Write a Story That Appeals to Both Young and Old
Stories appeal differently to different age groups. From picture books that appeal to little kids, to adult fiction that a child wouldn’t be interested in reading. However, there are some stories, like Harry Potter, that appeal to both children and adults. They have the power to keep readers from various ages interested from the beginning until the end. What you need to … [Read more...] about How to Write a Story That Appeals to Both Young and Old
7 Tips to Help You End Your Story the Right Way
A lot depends on the ending of a story. The ending needs to be neat and logical in order to justify the rest of the story. The ending needs to be well tied to the plot in such a way that it is capable of making that one last impression on readers. It should be able to deliver that final blow. Exactly how the ending of a story should be depends on the narrative, the plot and … [Read more...] about 7 Tips to Help You End Your Story the Right Way
How to Create the Perfect Plot Outline for Your Novel
One of the benefits of creating a plot outline for your novel, even if you don’t see yourself as a plotter, is that a plot outline serves as a path that you can follow to write your novel. Additionally, nothing is stopping you from changing things you’ve written in your outline if your story has gone in a different way. But, in order to make the best use of a plot outline, it … [Read more...] about How to Create the Perfect Plot Outline for Your Novel