Category Archives: Creative Writing1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one [...]
Audre Lorde, an American poet, once said “There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.”
Ideas may resemble one another at first glance like sisters standing side by side, but upon closer inspection, distinctions can be made. Stories of love, redemption or corruption, while similar in theme are unique in [...]
“The soul knows all things, and knowledge is only a remembering.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Far down in the silent depths of sub consciousness lie myriads of truths, each awaiting a time when its owner shall call it forth. To utilize these stored-up thoughts, you must express them to others; and to be able to express [...]
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
Most of my ideas come from the world around me. To write I have to be in the world to interact, observe and imagine. I find inspiration in everyday events, an overheard conversation, a visit to [...]
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