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When Choosing Themes, Write What You Don’t Know

When Choosing Themes, Write What You Don’t Know

We all know the adage “write what you know.” It’s good advice. It’s a solid approach to relatable characters and descriptions that feel real.

But when it comes to themes, this is not good advice. When it comes to themes, write what you don’t know. In fact, it’s one of the best paths to a key element of great fiction: complexity.

What Poets Know That Most Writers Don’t

What Poets Know That Most Writers Don’t

It’s one of the first creative writing lessons we’re taught: use all your senses. I remember sitting at my desk in second grade with a fun pack of Skittles while the teacher told us about how we needed to use our eyes, ears, noses, mouths, and hands to describe them.

Themes to Explore in Your Writing: Strength

Themes to Explore in Your Writing: Strength

Good things supposedly come in threes, right? Whatever your numerical fave is, grab all your literary vitamins because today’s Theme of the Day is STRENGTH.

Do you like your characters strong or weak? Powerful or vulnerable? Invincible or a push-over?

The answer lies, as in so many things, on the golden middle path.

Five Ways to Fuel your Imagination

Five Ways to Fuel your Imagination

As the The Write Practice implies, we write (and read) to become better writers. But what other unexpected activities can help boost our imagination? Read on for a few new ones to try!

Is Your Protagonist a Thinker or a Feeler?

I just started reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower, having already seen the movie and feeling that I would like to do the work justice by also reading the book. I’m maybe 20 pages in and I can already tell that Charlie, the narrator and protagonist, has a lot of feelings. To be fair, he’s also undergoing some pretty intense stuff, so that’s understandable, but it seems like he’s very in tune with his emotions. One might say that he seems like he’d be a Feeler in the context of the Myers-Briggs type, but you’d have a skewed idea of what Feeling actually is.

The Captain Jack Sparrow Method for First Drafts

Getting through that first draft is one of the toughest part of writing—and one of the most important. I’ve often felt while drafting that I’m not so much writing as much as I am weathering my way through it. No matter how carefully I set my sails, there’s inevitably...

What are the Basics of Writing Well?

What are the Basics of Writing Well?

How do I become a better writer? Nearly every day people email me questions like this. The questions come from the most unlikely places, from fourteen year old aspiring novelists, from corporate and government leaders who want to help their colleagues hone their writing skills, even from people trying to improve their English.

“Practice,” I often tell them. But what do you practice? What are the basic skills you need to learn to write well?

The War Of Art

The War Of Art

How many times have you wanted to write, but just couldn’t get anything out? How many times have you procrastinated, coming up with some seemingly valid excuse to avoid writing?

We’ve all been there. The challenge is getting out of our funk. The solution is simple: action. The book that taught me how to take action as a writer was “The War of Art.” Let’s skim over a handful of my favorite quotes from Steven Pressfield’s epic kick-in-the-arse.

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