Your Complete Creative Writing Toolkit
Read. Learn. Write better. Receive Feedback. Publish.
Creative writing ideas, book recommendations, writing tools and tips, courses, lessons, professional feedback and information for teachers and writing students.
Writing skill is
honed through training, practice, feedback, multiple revisions, and publication. This website guides emerging
writers in each of these important areas. I also recommend good reading. Whether your interest is in short stories, creative-nonfiction, autobiography/journaling, or the novel, be-a-better-writer.com offers writing
tips, resources, advice, markets, contests, courses, and templates to increase the odds for publication.
For a complete list of everything on the site, please use the Site Map. The links below will take you to some of the most
popular pages.
To ask writing questions, or view questions others have asked, please use the Q & A link below. I personally answer
all serious questions. To learn which writing books I've found most useful over the course of my career, visit the Writing Library.
Keep up-to-date with contests, and find fun activities and resources for your classes or workshops. Make use ofthe writing prompts or enjoy the writing quotations.
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Writing Help Write like a professional with tips and advice on
story premise, characterization, character motivation, point of view, flashback, dialogue, dialogue punctuation, scenes and sequels, and much more.
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Writing Prompts Prompts can help when you sit
staring at the computer with nothing to write. It happens. Move past this lapse in creativity by writing out whatever fills your mind—the dinner menu that needs
planning, a happy moment you want to enjoy a few minutes longer, worries and concerns, anything that will allow you to type, as the act of typing anything will stimulate
new ideas and productivity.
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Ask An Author If you have a writing question, the Ask an Author page allows you to ask and receive a prompt reply.
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Creative Writing Contests Submit your fiction and creative nonfiction for prizes
ranging from $200 to several thousand dollars in prestigious magazines and journals.
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Creative Writing Activities This area is for teachers and others who need
new challenges and inspiration for their students or workshop participants. Some of the exercises may be adapted for use as online exercises.
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Creative Writing Quotations I have included some of my favourite creative writing
quotations on this page, numbered for easy reference. Creative writing quotes remind me that writing is about thinking, and about sifting through the thoughts of others in
search of that elusive something that triggers our own ability to articulate the truth as we see and imagine it.
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Publish Your Writing Page Forty-Seven online anthology accepts short story
submissions from new and established writers. If you are a new writer, we would love to help you launch your career as a writer with an early publication credit.
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Read New Stories in Page Forty-Seven, a continually growing library of
original short stories submitted by new and emerging writers around the globe.
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Creative Writing Ideas Creative writing ideas are all around, in the newspaper, in
snippets of conversation overheard, in anything outrageous. Inspiration is easy to find when you know where to look.
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Editing Service Are you sure your work is ready to submit
to a contest or for
publication? Most new writers have no trouble with early drafts but fail to recognize mistakes that will be immediately obvious to the editors they hope to impress. Often
professional feedback or a final edit provides the best chance a new author has of getting published. Even seasoned, professional writers sometimes want a second opinion,
and when I do, I use an editing service I trust. Not too long ago I published a short story, was paid well for it, but just wasn't as happy as I should have been with it. I sent
it here. They returned the story within 24 hours and pinpointed issues that made immediate sense to me. I reworked the story and now it is ready for reprints!
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Creative Writing Resources This collection of writing resources will, I hope, provide
endless inspiration and writing help. When I come across an interesting or useful tool, I post it here.
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Creative Writing Library This "library" discloses some of the books I have in my personal library.
It includes an eclectic selection of books on writing craft that I have found most useful as a writer and that I recommend to those wanting to hone their skills.
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If you don't see what you're looking for, let me know, and I'll write the next article to fill the need. I don't believe that there is one way of writing
or one way of teaching creative writing. There are numerous methods, and on this site, I strive to provide as many options as possible,
so that you may use what feels right, and leave the rest.
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Disclosure: This site costs visitors nothing. I spend on average a hundred hours a month building and maintaining it, and I incur many costs, including payments
to authors when I buy their stories.
To recoup some of my time and expenses, I have incorporated advertising. When you visit sponsors or purchase products from this site, I earn commissions ranging from a
few pennies to a few dollars. With the exception of the Google ads, which I can't control, I offer only products that I use and value myself, from sellers I trust.
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