7 Ways to Be More Creative

I’m doing something a little different today for my writing tip. This article, 7 Ways to Be More Creative, caught my attention this week, and I thought it was a pretty good read. So, for today’s tip, I’m going to send you to it to read: 7 Ways to Be More Creative. Hopefully it will […]

Is Your Story’s Concept Broken?

Every story begins with an idea. The idea may come to you while listening to a song, driving a car, or reading a newspaper. You might be the kind of person who gets a dozen story ideas a day, or maybe they come to you rarely. The question is, how do you know if your […]

Standing Out

A writer who has just begun brainstorming a novel wrote to me today.  He had an idea for a book, but while doing some research discovered that it had already been written.  What should he do?  Write it anyway, or look for a new idea?  This is a complex question.  I have another friend who […]