My tips for creating and maintaining tension in your writing. How to write a description incorporating the senses. Descriptive writing tips to build atmosphere. How to vary the pace in your writing to create tension. How to write a description incorporating the senses Focus on the five senses – sound, smell, touch, taste, and sight. Think about […]
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My Strategy for Crafting Stories Authentic and Relatable for Young Adult Readers In the last fifteen years, young-adult fiction, or “YA fiction,” has exploded into the reading world and has had a huge cultural impact on our screens. John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Series, and Veronica’s Roth’s Divergent Series are a few of
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The wonderful thing about writing a story set in a fantasy world is that you as the author have complete control and creativity. Fantasy takes its reader into another world where anything can be possible. Every author brings something new to the genre through worldbuilding, which keeps the stories entertaining and interesting. You never know
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How to write a super bad guy… or girl. You’ve developed your hero, plotted out his/her motivation, created the backstory, their interests, their principles, attitude, values, quirks… the list goes on. They work perfectly for the world that you have created in your story, but still something isn’t right. The story feels flat. Something is…
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Where does your writing belong? Horror fiction has one goal in mind. To evoke feelings of terror, stress, panic, loathing, anxiety, and repulsion. Writing horror embraces a whirlwind of emotions, but not all of those feelings are negative. Compassion, understanding, and empathy for the protagonist is what motivates audiences to read on. As readers, we
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Eight Writing Tips to Help your Journey Toward Horror. Have you ever watched a horror movie without the sound? Try it, and you’ll soon realise the tension, atmosphere, suspense, and anticipation have disappeared. The piece no longer sends a shiver through the viewer. Why? The answer is because film uses a range of cinematic techniques
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