Should You Self-Publish Or E-Publish?

What are the advantages/disadvantages between self-publishing and going with an e-publisher? A lot depends on your book, your experience, and what you hope to accomplish.

Facing Challenges Of Freelance Writing

Freelance writing community is large and growing. Wouldn't it be nice if we can share tips and ideas and form a support system. I agree it will not be like working in a group in an office but at least we will have someone who understand our problems and who is willing to share their experience.

Mediwrite

Using meditation to unleash your creativity.

Teaching a Teenager to Write - Five Suggestions from a Best-selling Author

Is your high school having trouble getting his or her school papers written? Best-selling author says these five tips may help...

Eulogy on the Sonnet

There is just something simply elegant about packing a ton of meaning into a fourteen line poem, which we know as the sonnet. I came to write sonnets as a result of having been asked by a student, whom I was tutoring over the internet via email, to help her with an English assignment. This task involved writing a sonnet. Having been a big fan of the Sonnets of William Shakespeare (having memorized at one time at least twenty-five or so, and having written a short book on the subject), I delighted in the task. The result was that I became an avid writer of this famous English poem.

188 Stage Hero's Journey - Monomyth - Letting Go Of The Old Self

Every Hero has to let go of the Old Self.

188 Stage Hero's Journey - Monomyth - Afterlife Act

His receives a high status burial (is buried on high ground etc). In Out of Africa (1985), Denys is buried upon a hilltop.

188 Stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth) - Between The Magic Flight and the Crossing of the Return

Between the Magic Flight and the Crossing of the Return Threshold, a hell of a lot happens that is, incredibly, rarely given mention. Here the Hero and his (or her) allies, again, enter a new domain which is represented in many ways. In Robocop (1987), the cops declare a strike.

188 Stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth) - The Hero Is Sent On A Trivial Task

During the Period of Desolation, where the Hero is not committed to the Journey........

Writers - Generate Peace and Creativity By Shutting Some Things Off!

Have you ever felt like a hamster running around and around in one of those little stationary wheels? Do you find yourself saturated with an endless list of things to do and wonder what you’ve accomplished all day? Do you find yourself sitting in front of your computer screen, uninspired, uncreative and unable to write a single sentence? Here are a few distracters that could be the big culprits!

What It Takes to Be a Ghostwriter

Ghostwriting is a form of freelance writing. In other words, it is a business transaction, and you are a supplier of services. The client has full control over the copy and pays you for your services. Do you have what it takes? Take this simple test, and find out.

188 Stage Hero's Journey - Monomyth - Characters And Archetypes

Apart from the Hero, it is these archetypes' challenges that provide the basis for subplot.

188 Stage Hero's Journey - Monomyth - Importance Of Time Pressure

Antagonism Strikes. Often, an Antagonism will increase the urgency of the Journey and resolution. In The Matrix (1999), Neo is pursued by the agents, interrogated and implanted. In Lord of the Rings (2001), the demon army are born.

188 Stage Hero's Journey - Monomyth - Devolved Consciousness

The Expansion of Consciousness is better made explicit after a demonstration of the Devolved Consciousness. In Straw Dogs (1971), David waits and haplessly shoots at the birds.

Historical Fiction - The Way Forward - Unique And Effective Writing

For those of you who love to write historical fiction, this article may be useful for you to develop writing skills as well as to improve quality of your writing piece. As we all know among people who are historical fiction writers that writing kind of this work requires a lot of time and massive effort as well as creativity to combine the historical fact with the story to make the perfect casting as well as endearing and dislikeable characters.