Creative Writing – Page 4 – Shelley K. Wall

How to run a blog tour…by Lynn Cahoon

Please take a look at the following posts from Lynn Cahoon, Crimson Romance author. She provides excellent advice on setting up a blog tour, step-by-step. First Post: How to set up your own blog tour: http://newkidonthewritersblock.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-set-up-your-own-blog-tour.html Second Post: Setting up your blog tour part 2: http://newkidonthewritersblock.blogspot.com/2012/08/setting-up-your-blog-tour-part-2.html And while you're there, take a look at some of [...]

By Shelley|December 16th, 2012|Writing Tips|Comments Off

Tips on Writing…And Life:

Lazy Friday...my day to SHARE what great people have said, done, and talked about. From their brain to yours, here are 30 writing tips from great authors that you will recognize. But don't stop there, I have a second glint of inspiration below that. I'll warn you, this link is laden with graphics but well worth [...]

By Shelley|December 7th, 2012|Writing Tips|Comments Off

Beginnings and Endings are GREAT but where's the middle? I'll trade you stories…

When I come up with the idea for a new manuscript, I vividly imagine how it begins. I normally can also nail down the ending and several scenes down the road. But the part that comes right before is tough. How do I give the reader enough information about the characters to draw them in [...]

By Shelley|December 4th, 2012|Writing Tips|Comments Off

Doing the Work of Lazy Words

Doing the Work of Lazy Words by Robyn Corum More and more you hear people preach against using adjectives and adverbs. Why? Because, typically, they are the lazy man’s way to decorate a page of prose. Certainly, precise and colorful adjectives and adverbs exist, but one must search far and wide to find them. For [...]

By Shelley|December 3rd, 2012|Writing Tips|Comments Off

Eight Ideas to Add Conflict

Adding conflict in your manuscript is the key ingredient to keeping readers involved. No matter what genre you write, this is critical. Sometimes, though, you get stuck and just don't know what to do next. So, just for grins I've thrown together a list of suggestions. These aren't necessarily geared toward any specific genre and [...]

By Shelley|October 28th, 2012|Writing Tips|Comments Off

Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch (How to tell people about your story)

This was from a short session that James Scott Bell discussed at the Lone Star RWA Conference that I thought you might like: Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch: Every writer needs to be prepared to promote their book at any moment to whomever they meet. You never know when the person you run into will be [...]

By Shelley|October 17th, 2012|Writing Tips|Comments Off

A great story plot and death?

A great story is life with the dull parts taken out --Alfred Hitchcock I had the opportunity to attend a day long seminar by James Scott Bell on writing and he started out with this quote. I loved it and thought it great to share. I'd also like to add just a few key points [...]

By Shelley|October 14th, 2012|Writing Tips|Comments Off