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Creative Writing for Beginners: 10 Top Tips

These creative writing for beginners tips can help with a short story, poem or novel.

Writing is a great pursuit, but many first-time writers find that it’s not as easy as they think. If you are dabbling in creative writing or fiction writing for the first time, you will likely discover that writing courses and writing exercises fall short in helping you truly develop characters and overcome writer’s block.

Thankfully, you can take some steps to embrace your inner author and write your fi...

Need To Find Book Ideas? We’ve Got You Covered

If you’re struggling to come up with story ideas for the first draft of your next bestseller, this list will help you find book ideas.

Writing a book requires some creativity, but sometimes you may struggle to come up with the best ideas for a new story. Creative writing prompts can get you started, but sometimes they aren’t enough. As you search for inspiration, you should know that your next great story may be at your fingertips.

Before you can start the writing process or the publishing...

How to Get Started Finding Content Writing Jobs: 10 Places

Content writing jobs can help you start getting money flowing for your hard work as a writer, and here’s how you can find them.

Today, the World Wide Web makes written content highly valuable. Content writing jobs can provide great writers with income as they put their craft to work. If you’re interested in earning money in a convenient and flexible way, and if you can hone your writing skills, then content writing jobs could be a good fit.

But how do you find them, especially as a beginne...

Creating a Style Guide Template that Works

As you build your website and online presence, make sure your message and brand are consistent with the help of a style guide template .

Brand identity matters. When people see something created by your company, whether it’s your website, a flyer or a newsletter, they should be able to instantly connect it with your brand based on design elements in addition to your written voice and the presence of your logo.

A style guide template can help you achieve consistency across your marketing ef...

10 Strategies For More Effective Writing

Want to connect with more readers? These strategies will make your writing more powerful.

Every day, 2 million blog posts hit the World Wide Web. That’s a shocking amount of written content, and it doesn’t account for press releases, scholarly articles and other forms of writing. If you want your writing to stand out in this crowded online world, it needs to be strong.

Effective writers know that writing requires skill. They also know how to use specific strategies to make their writing m...

Scrivener Review: Can It Help You Write a Book?

Is Scrivener the tool you need to complete that book or another tool that won't help? Read this Scrivener review to find out!

For any writer who has tackled a book or play, the writing process can be long and tedious. Organizing materials and compiling them into understandable prose takes time and dedication. Scrivener is a tool that many use to help with this process.

I bought Scrivener back in 2013. Over the years, I've used this writing software to write a college thesis, a collection o...

How to Journal Daily: A Guide to Self Discovery

Here you'll discover how to journal daily and why journal writing can improve your mental, emotional, and physical health.

Are you wondering how to journal daily? Do you think journal entries will help you keep track of a to-do list or do you want to know about the benefits of journaling? Maybe you're looking for journaling prompts.

It's been widely reported that journaling improves your mental and emotional well-being. It provides a coping mechanism to help with self-care. Some studies ev...

Is Skillshare Worth Your Time And Money? An Honest Skillshare Review

In this Skillshare review, I go through what I like about it, what I don’t like about it, and if it’s worth your money.

Do you want to learn complex skills like creative writing, animation, and web design within hours? Skillshare maybe the tool for you.

I spent one week taking courses on Skillshare, and I can't remember the last time I learned so much in such a short time frame. The classes are hooking and full of tips and techniques to learn new skills or improve old ones.

A wide varie...

CreativeLive Vs Skillshare (Which Is Better?)

CreativeLive vs Skillshare – which one is worth investing your time and money in? Let’s find out!

Alongside Masterclass, CreativeLive and Skillshare are my favorite online learning platforms on the internet. I've always been a big fan of Skillshare and Masterclass since they helped improve my copywriting skills. But when I found out about CreativeLive, I had to dig deeper.

After some research, I found that CreativeLive is solely for creative professionals, hence the name. This makes it per...

Diary Versus Journal: What’s the Difference?

A journal is more than a synonym for a diary. This article compares the diary versus journal and explores the differences between both.

I've kept both digital and paper diaries and journals over the past 20 years or so. I've also read a lot of journals and diaries by famous authors to study their approaches.

Let's dive in.

What is Journaling?Good journaling practice also incorporates analysis of how you felt about a particular event

The Oxford Dictionary describes journali...