Congratulations to Mary Lou Condike, first place winner in the Mystery/Crime category of the Writer’s Digest 15th Annual Popular Fiction Awards! Here’s her winning story, “A Cowgirl Farewell.” A Cowgirl Farewell A line snaked out th...
Hey everybody! I’m Andy, 23, Italian.I’m not a writer, myself, far from being one, unfortunately. But I have always loved the art of writing and those who practice it! I’ve recently read L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy a...
In part 2 of this 1931 article about mystery story techniques, George Dyer offers his suggestions for how to drop hints about who the real criminal of the story is. Read part 1 of the article Murder for Profit: Mystery Story Techniques here...
To give some background: In addition to human realm there are multiple other realms that are connected to it. The races that occupy these realms are the basis of many of our mythological creatures and lore. Magic does exist, but is more lik...
There are always rural sections of a city you can visit and base it on. Jot down your report as you witness and experience them like in a forest. Could be a park or national park. Then do some research. I imagine castles are very easy to in...
Earlier this week my friend Beth asked me for some tutorials on Google Forms for beginners. As a follow up to that I’ve selected three Google Sheets tutorials from my library. These tutorials are for… Read the whole entry at Fre...
Back in August Google unveiled Originality Reports as a beta product in Google Classroom. According to an email that landed in my domain administrator account this afternoon, Originality Reports will… Read the whole entry at FreeTech4...
I define it with my own unique definition. It is the exploiting of a character’s problems, unhappiness, misfortunes, for their benefit. That’s what an antagonist will want to do. So from a character versus character conflict thi...
Reporting. “A person who reports”, according to Google, so that’s incredibly specific. Actually, the definition goes on to say “a person who reports, especially one employed to report news or conduct interviews for n...
Sometimes, some people can be overly logically precise when writing. I came up with these examples for your enjoyment. They are overdone examples of using too much logical precision. I hope you find them funny (imagine a person or animal ar...