A lot of people think they can write or paint or draw or sing or make movies or what-have-you, but having an artistic temperament does not make one an artist. Even the great writers of our time have tried
By Ejedegba Samuel There are some clichés that go with being a successful writer. A Chimamanda Adiche, for instance, might tell you that hard work and perseverance are prerequisites to becoming successful. But there are so many talented hard
Skip Prichard How to Stand Out Like many first-time authors preparing to launch their book into the world, I’ve been studying potential ways to make my book stand out from the crowd. After all, there are thousands upon thousands
By Hannah McKinnon Have you ever finished a chapter in one character’s point of view only to find the next chapter is written from somebody else’s perspective? Me too, and these mini cliff-hangers compel us to keep reading. Nonlinear
There are a lot of blogs out there—and we mean a lot. In 2016, it was estimated that 2.7 million blog posts were published every day. Now that's a lot of blog posts. But it's not meant to discourage
Ah, the old enemy. Writer’s block can happen to anybody no matter how good a writer you are. From writers like Malcolm Gladwell to writers like the author of “Nkechi the bush girl.” Not just authors but musicians, speech
Writing success boils down to hard work, imagination and passion—and then some more hard work. Here are 20 writing tips from 12 bestselling fiction authors, as compiled by iUniverse to fire up your creative spirit. Use these tips as
Most word processing programs have a built-in spell checker, but business correspondence still goes out with misspelled words that a checker would have caught. I’m not talking about words like bare and bear, which are both English words acceptable to an automatic
Writing fiction is not as difficult as it might seem, as long as you follow these eight simple rules: Think Outside the Box It is fiction after all. Take yourself through a time machine to the past in your
How many times have you sat in front of a blank screen staring at the pesky cursor, wondering why it’s so hard to write about yourself? I’ll bet it’s been more than once. Not to mention that the shift
