Emotions
Emotions. Some people have them, some people don’t. Some people weep at weddings, some people sit like rocks at funerals. However you, or your character, decides to portray emotions, you both need...
View ArticleI Want a Pony… And a Puppy… And an Exploding Kite… (TCWT)
I’m going to be frank. For the Teens Can Write, Too! blog chain this month, I must answer the question: “What is your ultimate goal as a writer?” I know my ultimate goal pretty clearly. I want to be...
View ArticleHow To Write A Classic
War and Peace. Les Miserables. The Count of Monte Cristo. The Three Musketeers. Hamlet. The Last of the Mohicans. All of these are classics, written in bygone ages for the people of bygone ages,...
View ArticleNot Again…
Don’t watch movies while you’re studying writing style! Don’t read classics while you’re studying writing style! Above all, don’t read nineteenth-century French authors while you’re studying writing...
View ArticleIf You Know Anything About Climaxes, Please Help
Everyone knows what this diagram shows, correct? It shows the five-point diagram of plot, as specified by Gustav Freytag. Source. But does anyone really know how to use it? I understand the exposition,...
View ArticleOf Awesomeness, Llamas, and Other Redundancies
I love Dumas. I love the writing style, I love the stories, I love the interconnected characters whose names, if I studied French history, would be instantly recognizable. I just love the way...
View ArticleLow Self-Esteem and How to Conquer It
You’d think that reading good books often is inadvisable to young writers because their self-esteem will be crushed, palpitated, then thrown off a cliff for good measure. For some odd reason, this is...
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