I love dialogue, dialogue is the meat in the sandwich of writing. It’s what readers mostly pay attention to so you need to make it good! (No pressure lol) Professional writers will tell you to avoid meaningless dialogue and small talk BUT I would like to challenge that and say to use it as a…
Category: 0-100 Real Quick Tips For Writing
0-100 Real Quick Tips For Writing: Writing Kiss Scenes
Romantic kiss scenes: Ok, so here’s a trick to writing a convincing kiss scene if you don’t have any experience yourself… GOOGLE THAT SHIZZLE XD Google is my saving grace oml. Looking up sites like: cosmopolitan, girlfriend (does that even exist anymore?) or even just punch into Google “how to kiss” (go incognito mode though-…
0-100 Real Quick Tips For Writing: Avoiding The Dreaded Writers Block
How To Avoid The Dreaded Writers Block Argh! The scary writer’s block!!!! Everyone goes through them and sadly they are a big reason why good books never get completed *sobbing in background* (the other 2 main reasons are: Author has lost interest or doesn’t like the story anymore.) A writing block is where you just…
0-100 Real Quick Tips For Writing: Good Smut
How To Write Good Smut *shimmies* lemony lemons *wiggles eyebrows* Number one: it will definitely help if you have some experience in the area (DON’T GO OUT THERE AND GIT SUM JUST BECAUSE I’VE TOLD YOU IT WILL HELP YOUR WRITING…good grief you’re going to give me a heart attack.) Having said that…there are some…
0-100 Real Quick Tips For Writing: Setting Out Chapters
End with small cliffhangers, something that makes the reader want to scroll on. It’s easy enough to do when you know how. Example: End with a conversation that needs a reply. “So what now?” She said, panting -end chapter- – begin next chapter- “We wait!” He replied, ducking low. People will want to flick to…
0-100 Real Quick Tips For Writing: Layout
*cracks knuckles* ALRIGHT LISTEN UP, THIS IS WHERE I NEED TO TALK TO SOME OF YA’LL. So… when I’m reading though a story and it’s one massive paragraph and I blink or sneeze… I have to go back and start all over again because I cannot, for the life of me, find my place again…
0-100 Real Quick Tips For Writing: Expanding Vocabulary
Ok this is where I struggled the most in the beginning and I’ll tell you how I improved over night. You got a pen and paper? Ok so G-O-O-G-L….. what? You already know about Google? Oh… ok then, well jump onto le google and punch in ANY word then put the word ‘synonyms’ on the…
0-100 Real Quick Tips For Writing: How To Write: Characters
Characters can be a mine field. You can make up your own characters or use pre-existing characters (fan fiction) and you are completely free to do whatever you like with their personalities but if the character is well known, people will be more interested in the story if that character is portrays as close to…
0-100 Real Quick Tips For Writing: Describing Surroundings
Sounds easy but it’s not as easy as it seems (for some of us) the best and quickest way to figure out how to describe surroundings in a story is pick 2 or 3 of the 5 senses and write them in. SIGHT So this is probably the easiest one to use but try not…
0-100 Real Quick Tips For Writing: Conflict Resolution & Ending a Story
Ending a story… the tricky part. Where to end and how to end. Where? End it when everything is all done and dusted. You want to wrap things up pretty quickly so that there’s not too much air hanging around in the story. Hit the climax, slide down the other side and cut it there……