Writing Prompt:
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Writing Crime
Anonymous asked: I’m doing crime fiction in school and have to write a short story, but I’ve never written crime before and I don’t really know how. Do you have any tips? Maybe something on writing action scenes, creating suspense, and leaving clues? Thanks for any help you can give me!
Crime fiction is most definitely one of my favorite genres to read, so I’m so happy that you’ve given me the chance to look these things up!
Action Scenes
- Writing Action Scenes
- How Do I Write Better Action Scenes?
- Writing the Action Scene
- 10 Tips for Writing Good Action Scenes
- Punch Up Your Fight Scenes: Three Techniques To Knock Readers Out
- Writing Tense Action Scenes
Creating Suspense
- Ten Tips for Building Suspense in a Novel
- Foreshadowing and Suspense
- How to Keep Them Reading
- 9 Trick to Writing Suspense Fiction
- 5 Simple Steps on Creating Suspense in Fiction
Leaving Clues
- Don’t Drop Clues; Place Them Carefully
- Effectively Leaving Clues in Mystery Stories
- False Clues and “Red Herrings”
Crime Fiction
- Writing Crime and Suspense Fiction
- Crime Fiction Writing: Ten Clichés to Avoid
- Tips for Writing Crime Fiction and Thrillers (I would focus on tips 1-7)
I hope these links can help you. If you have any further questions, let me know!
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(via writeworld)
Why do you write?
What causes you to pick up a pen or put your fingers to a keyboard? How have you grown as a writer?
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Creating Fictional Characters
by Lillie
Several years ago, I taught classes in fiction-writing at a continuing education program for senior citizens. I’ve decided to turn my outlines and notes on these classes into several series about writing fiction.
- Creating Fictional Characters—Part 1: Characters Are Story People
- Creating Fictional Characters—Part 2: Finding and Creating Characters
- Creating Fictional Characters—Part 3: Revealing Characters and Point of View
- Creating Fictional Characters—Part 4: Fleshing Out Characters with Tags, Traits, and Relationships
- Creating Fictional Characters—Part 5: Developing Background and Traits Using a Character Chart, Bio, Diary, or Interview
- Creating Fictional Characters—Part 6: Putting the Right Words in Their Mouths
- Creating Fictional Characters—Part 7: Giving Characters Goals and Motivation
- Creating Fictional Characters—Part 8: Developing Characters throughout Your Story
(via cool-violeta)
Still some of the best advice I’ve ever read.
(Source: hobbiteers, via i-lost-the-ability-toucan)
How to play characters
A quick how to guide on how to play every type of character you may come across
- How to play a male character: Play a character just as you would any other character. Keep in mind that he has a penis and/or identifies as a man.
- How to play a female character: Play a character just as you would any other character. Keep in mind that she has a vagina and/or identifies as a woman.
- How to play a homosexual character: Play a character just as you would any other character. They are interested in the same sex.
- How to play a straight character: Play a character just as you would any other character. They are interested in people of the opposite sex.
Characters are people. They each have their own personality, life, history, desires, wants, needs, thoughts, and feelings. Play any character as what they are. If there’s something that makes them different, that will not change the entire method on how to play them. Just play them. Feelings thoughts and wants are a universal thing no matter what and who you are playing.
(via musespiration)
Q: What do you write? Can you share any part of anything you've written?
Anonymous
I write whatever happens to be on my mind, which often leads to rants. So I have pages and pages of mind-vomit which I try to formulate into a poem or a short story.
I am also going to be doing NaNoWriMo this year which is exciting and nerve wracking and thinking about it makes me want to wet my pants.
I’ll post something of mine in a ‘read more’ if you guys want.
(Anyone can send in submissions by the way, I love reading follower’s work).
Amanda Jo xx
Q: Words: a sonnet by ABK; A garish use fulfills our desperate needs/ The bitter symphony buries the grave/ Only for the forgotten lost it feeds/ Despite a penchant to be broke we crave/ For pretty, empty, solemn words spoken/ At last once those they are about are gone/ Most certainly when we end up broken/ For without lies and cheats we are withdrawn/ We are so obsessed with this verbose prose/ That we lose sight of the reality/ Let us not forget before we compose/ Our sad history of mortality
Anonymous
