Articles On Writing

10 Days to Write Better: A Writing Challenge Writers are always looking for the ways to hone creative skills and work on certain trouble areas. The writing challenge is a great way to exercise your writing, no matter if you are a beginner or an experienced writer. Are you still trying to nail down your style? Do you struggle with characters development? Or maybe you are just … [Read more...] about 10 Days to Write Better: A Writing Challenge

Should I Self-Publish My Book? This is an old article. The information in here is still It is somewhat relevant. We hope it is helpful.  There is a big question out there authors are asking themselves every day, should I self-publish my book? I hope this article will help a little bit.We try to be as complete as possible when it comes to collecting information for our … [Read more...] about Should I Self Publish My Book?

I’m astonished by how many writers are terrified to have others read their work. I’ve found that many people are happy to have a few readers. Some writers will post work on their facebook, myspace or web pages and let 100s of people read it, but they are afraid to get 1 rejection from an editor. This is silly. Writing might be a lone process, we may be alone in creating our … [Read more...] about How to Publish a Short Story

Best Editing Tools for Bloggers         Here are some suggestions on finding the best editing tools for bloggers. After you spend hours or even days working on a single blog post and organizing your notes and references like a maniac, you finally have a great blog post ready to be posted. Actually, it’s not ready yet. You’ve made a great achievement, … [Read more...] about Best Editing Tools for Bloggers

Tips and Tricks for More Productive Writing by Jessica MillsWriting has become more and more a part of our communication system, as we stay engaged with digital information regularly. Whether you are a social media marketer, website administrator, content writer, novelist or a student, good quality writing takes time, effort, and energy. Your energy! As with so many other … [Read more...] about Tips and Tricks for More Productive Writing

Authors who built a modern Christmas Authors over the years have played a big role in creating the modern day Christmas. Some authors published and publicized Christmas, setting up traditions and even imagines like the appearance of Saint Nick. Christmas Today is far from the 3 wise men following the star in the bible, and authors over the years have created this modern day … [Read more...] about Authors who Built a Modern Christmas

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Here are 10 Tiny Tales that will Terrorize You. These scary stories are written by new, up and coming authors. As a writer if you can inspire emotions in your readers, you are doing it right. Each of these stories are well written, thoughtful, and they all inspire the most terror in the smallest space.Scary stories have been around for 1000s of years, and these 500 word or … [Read more...] about 10 Tiny Tales that will Terrorize You

Question: How long is a short story?Answer: The short story usually falls between 1,000 and 15,000 words. At around 15,000 words the novella is born. We are addressing the modern short story and not the ancient tale, fable, or sketch. There is no exact word length, and to understand word count for different prose, it maybe be best to look closer at a variety of literary … [Read more...] about How long is a short story? A question for the ages.

10 Best Magazines for Kids Looking for magazine for kids? Here are our 10 Best Magazines for kids. So I wanted to find a couple of kids magazines for my son and daughter. I thought "What could be more fun than getting a cool science magazine or literary magazine on their level! Ugh, was I wrong. I hunted and hunted, and realized that state of children's magazines, in my … [Read more...] about Looking for magazine for kids? Here are our 10 Best Magazines for kids.

Advice on Writing a Novel by Joseph Conrad “I have not read this author’s books, and if I have read them I have forgotten what they were about.”These words are reported as having been uttered in our midst not a hundred years ago, publicly, from the seat of justice, by a civic magistrate.  The words of our municipal rulers have a solemnity and importance far above the words … [Read more...] about Advice on Writing a Novel by Joseph Conrad

POETRY TO-DAY IN AMERICA SHAKSPERE—THE FUTURE by Walt Whitman Strange as it may seem, the topmost proof of a race is its own born poetry. The presence of that, or the absence, each tells its story. As the flowering rose or lily, as the ripened fruit to a tree, the apple or the peach, no matter how fine the trunk, or copious or rich the branches and foliage, here waits sine … [Read more...] about POETRY TO-DAY IN AMERICA by Walt Whitman

THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES (From My Unpublished Autobiography) by Mark Twain  Some days ago a correspondent sent in an old typewritten sheet, faded by age, containing the following letter over the signature of Mark Twain: "Hartford, March 10, 1875. "Please do not use my name in any way. Please do not even divulge that fact that I own a machine. I have entirely … [Read more...] about My First Typewriter Sucked by Mark Twain

How to publish a book: A complete guide and in-depth look at all the options How do I publish a book?Quick Answer: There are basically 4 options today: 1. Traditional publisher 2. Small Publisher 3. Vanity Publisher 4. Self-publishing, this guide takes an in-depth look at all the options.In today’s world, choice is everything. If a publisher’s door closes, a … [Read more...] about How to Publish a Book: A complete guide

Mark Twain's Meeting with Robert Louis Stevenson  by Mark Twain  ... But it was on a bench in Washington Square that I saw the most of Louis Stevenson. It was an outing that lasted an hour or more, and was very pleasant and sociable. I had come with him from his house, where I had been paying my respects to his family. His business in the Square was to absorb the … [Read more...] about Mark Twain’s Meeting with Robert Louis Stevenson by Mark Twain

OF HAWTHORNE AND THE SHORT STORY by Edgar Allen Poe The reputation of the author of "Twice-Told Tales" has been confined, until very lately, to literary society; and I have not been wrong, perhaps, in citing him as the example, par excellence, in this country, of the privately admired and publicly-unappreciated man of genius. Within the last year or two, it is true, an … [Read more...] about OF HAWTHORNE AND THE SHORT STORY by Edgar Allen Poe

The Short Story We love historic articles here at EWR. We love writing and love the history of writing just a little less. I feel that by looking at the history of where our forms and genres have been, it gives us great insight into the evolution. There are many times that we ask ourselves, if you write with any frequency and study, why are things this way? Looking at the … [Read more...] about The Short Story

Do you think that writing killing posts is an art? To some extent, it is. But it’s more about skill and technique especially if we are talking about academic writing, copywriting, but even fiction writing requires from you following some rules.If you feel that writing is too hard for you, never give up. There are many of those who also thought like that but after trying … [Read more...] about How To Influence The Reader Correctly: 5 Tips To Writers From Harvard Linguist

Welcome to write a novel with me in only 1 year. I think it is important to have goals in writing. I think there are a couple ways to set these goals. Some people care about the amount of time they write each day. Couple writers I know like to write 5 hours per day. They make a living off their writing and teaching. I would love to do that, but I find if I say I’m going to … [Read more...] about Write a Novel with Me in Only 1 Year