Variation: Kill your babies (Albert Herring)
Some attribute this quote, or the slightly different version “Kill all your darlings”, to Mark Twain and some claim that it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who said it. However, it was author William Faulkner who said it first and teachers of creative writing, film makers, journalist and other kinds of [...]
Weekly Creative Writing Tip: Kill Your Darlings
August 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Creative Writing Tips
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Weekly Creative Writing Tip: Redrafting with Writer Keith Gray
August 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Creative Writing Tips, Series, Tips from Writer Keith Gray
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Weekly Creative Writing Tip: Setting from Writer Keith Gray
July 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Creative Writing Tips, Series, Tips from Writer Keith Gray
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Weekly Creative Writing Tip: Plot by Writer Keith Gray
July 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Creative Writing Tips, Series, Tips from Writer Keith Gray
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Weekly Creative Writing Tip: Characters According to Writer Keith Gray
July 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Creative Writing Tips, Series, Tips from Writer Keith Gray
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Weekly Creative Writing Tip: Ideas & Inspiration from Writer Keith Gray
July 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Creative Writing Tips, Series, Tips from Writer Keith Gray
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Weekly Creative Writing Tip: Go For a Drive
June 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Creative Writing Tips
Need character development?
Every writer has been there. That point when you have gotten half way through your story and you realize, you don’t really know who your character is. You really don’t know why your character happens to be in this particular story. What quality, or lack of quality, makes this character appear in this [...]
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Weekly Creative Writing Tip: Write What You Know
June 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Creative Writing Tips
Yep, it’s Office Space
This is the perfect example of writing what you know. Creator, Mike Judge, worked as an engineer, but found that animation was his preferred calling so that’s what he did.
So how do you go from engineering to Beavis and Butthead?
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Weekly Creative Writing Tip: Is Your Spelling Up To Par?
June 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Creative Writing Tips
The worst mistake you can make as a writer is misspelling words. Actually it’s a pretty bad mistake whatever the case. For example, I once sent out my resume having misspelled assess (yeah you know what it said).
As you can images, a few potential employers got quite a laugh at that one and one possible [...]
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