Creative Writing Tips

These tips will help you generate great ideas, keep you focused, keep you producing, and meet your deadlines. These tips are also great for teaching you how to build proper characters, how to write in third person, and much more.

Tip One: Sometimes we face a roadblock, known as writers block. To learn more about it, and how to deal with it, check out writers block.

Or if you need some writing inspiration, check out my writing prompts page.

Tip Two: Another problem I have is description. I’m great at writing action scenes, dialogue, character backgrounds, but when it comes to descriptions, I need help.

I have to literally look at a picture and describe it to get the scene right. To find out more check out how to write description.

Tip Three: If you do have trouble building characters to be realistic human beings, a great tool is how to build strong characters.

Tip Four: Point of view is very important in writing. You can have a first person, second person, or third person point of view. First and third are the most popular. For more detail on the different points of views, check out deciding on point of view.

Tip Five: Always think about who you are writing your short story for before you start. If you are just writing for pleasure, the length doesn't matter. But if you plan on submitting it to publishers, you'd better read the guidelines. To learn more check out short story writing.

Tip Six: My next tip is for those who hate proof reading. I know I hate it too, but if you ever want to be considered seriously, this is very important. Just recently I was in talks with my agent, and discovered I needed a critique of my work. I’d always paid a proofreader, or had a friend or teacher do it. But to be considered “professional” you need to shell out the $100 and get it critiqued. You can learn a lot from this process, your weakness and strengths and the areas you need to expand in.

Tip Seven: Use bold, imaginative language, strong action verbs and words with emotional overtones to draw readers into your story. To learn more, check out creative writing tips: success secrets of top authors.

Tip Eight: My last creative writing tip is for people who are struggling with finding their creative outlet. If you need a jump start, a great resource is to learn how to unleash the creative child inside you.

Good luck. Remember practice makes perfect.