Much of the content I write isn’t posted on this blog. To give you the chance to see all the other work I’ve been doing, I wanted to create this post as an ongoing compilation of my off-site content. Here are a few items worth checking out:
Writing regularly is hard; the blank page is intimidating. This entry looks at ways writers can help themselves write consistently. Tips include strategies for group writing, ways to approach daily writing time, ritualizing your writing process, and more.
Looking to round out your flatter characters? Here are eight ways you can create a more three-dimensional concept for who your character is and what drives them. Tips range from online dating profiles to character theme-songs.
Good flash fiction can be as profound and evocative as longer pieces. By studying flash fiction, you can improve the power of your prose while coming to a greater understanding of where stories earn their emotional weight.
How do you stay motivated in the face of a project as daunting as a novel? And how can you avoid that most common pitfall of all?: Abandoning one (or many) partially-finished books. Here are a few tips from my own experience.
Love is in the air—visible if you squint through the thick fog of resentment. Sadly, the same combinations of naïve infatuation, forced affection, and bitter isolation are common in writing. How can you fall in love with writing again? Here are six strategies.
You hop on your computer to write. Three hours later, you’re still on Facebook. How can you deal with the modern dilemma of digital dependency, and how can you strategically log off so you can write on? This article explores the question in detail.
As soon as a modern tool proves it can make me more effective, I sink my teeth into it. Here are nine tools I’ve found to be especially useful to both my creative writing and my freelance career.
Overcoming writer’s block isn’t as simple as “just writing.” By understanding writer’s block, you can employ strategies that let you maneuver around the problem, effectively outsmarting this common adversary of writers around the world.
Perfectionism inhibits creativity and the writing process, and “perfect” writing can feel artificial since it lacks the flaws naturally found in language. For many writers, stories and the writing process improve when they embrace organic word-crafting, using the shit of the first draft to fertilize the drafts yet to come.
Ready your pitchforks! This unironic defense of ‘Twilight’ examines the strengths and weaknesses of the series while encouraging writers to learn from the story’s success.
Not all metaphors are good, and improper metaphors can be downright criminal. Here are six common ways you’re molesting your metaphors. And you need to stop. You sick bastard.
Welcome to the 21st century. Are you taking advantage of it? One of today’s most impressive learning hubs is Netflix. When used appropriately, Netflix is one of the most powerful, thorough, and affordable learning hubs for up-and-coming creative writers.
8 warning signs that you may want to throw your latest manuscript under the lawnmower. Includes a flowchart!
8 frequently abused words or phrases that gum up your content. Stars of the show include “suddenly,” “then,” “is,” “started,” “very,” “that,” “like,” and “in order to.”The post Meanwhile, Elsewhere on the Internet…. appeared first on Rob D Young.