Creative Writing Tips: Using One Page To Focus Your Story

Editing a story? Here is a technique that will help you make effective rewrite decisions.

Fiction Writing Tips: Different Types of Plots

This tutorial discuses popular plot types and how thinking about the kind of plot you are writing can enhance your creative writing.

Adapting a Story to Storyboard for Graphic Novel and Film

Learn creative writing: the storyboard method.

Learn to Storyboard Using this Software, Springboard

This is an intro to Springboard, a great program for storyboarding without all the resource hogging other storyboard programs like to do. It runs on a netbook. I use it to storyboard all the time.

Creative Writing Tips: Finding Useful Feedback

No one like criticism but critiques about a story you are working on is invaluable. Listen to feedback and make the needed changes and it will make your story better. Not a fun process to start but as you rework you story it becomes very satisfying.

When it's Better to Forget About the Premise

The premise is a great tool for writers but know when to use it.

Tips on Writing Dialog that Absorbs

Dialog should be written to exist in time not on the page. This video tutorial is about making your dialog come across more smoothly and about how to make your dialog more digestible.

A Writing Exercise: Write a Story Based on One Character

The exercise should not take more than a couple of hours. It is designed to put you in that creative place from witch all great stories come.

How to Develop Characters: What Mood do They Bring with Them?

The mood your a character brings to the scene is like a miniature force of nature.

Organizing Tool for your Story: Online Timeline

This free online timeline site is a great place to make a timeline of your story to help work out event sequences and also provides you with a way to "see" your story much better. I highly recommend it! It made my writing better and helps me make decisions.

Writing Fiction Tutorial: Working the Plot out From End to Beginning

Try this simple writing technique out, it may work for you. Create a plot starting with the end of the story and work your way to the beginning.

Make Better Fiction: Handling Divisiveness in your Writing

It's not the point to rid divisiveness from your writing but to hide it away like electric wiring in a house.

Effective Surprise in Writing Fiction

A surprise event in the story is effective if it is also a logical outcome of previous events.

Strategies for Character Introduction for Fiction Writing

Another way for art to imitate life. Base the timing of character introduction on the way we get to know real people we interact with in the real world (as opposed to the imaginary ones. :))

How to Write Better Fiction: the Underlying Mood

Learn to compose an underlying mood to boost your story's impact.