How Do I Write A Death Scene?
Step outside your comfort zone to perfect the death scenes.
1. Don’t be afraid to get gruesome
2. Have them a sacrifice themselves
3. Throw in a red herring
4. Duel it out
5. Give the Big Bad character their comeuppance
6. A death with dignity
7. Make an example of them
8. Give your character a second chance

Stories are built on emotions and death portray and connects people on that emotional level. Whatever death scene you are writing, it must make sense for reader. [Read More]

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When writing dialogues, "said" becomes repetitive. It happens unknowingly and knowingly both. Here are few words you can use to replace "said" in your dialogues:
- replied
- asserted
- concluded
- explained
- articulated
- retorted

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Verb like "moved" can be overused when writing story, replace them with:
- maneuvered
- shifted
- walked
- shuffled
- turned
- pushed

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Amazing is an amazing word, but it becomes not so amazing to use the word amazing over and over again. What should you use instead? Look below:
- unbelievable
- wonderful
- remarkable
- startling
- unusual
- neat
- marvelous

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Using "very" can be very much annoying when you have to repeat them! Let's use some different words:
- greatly
- eminently
- terribly
- absolutely
- decidedly
- remarkably
- notably

List of words to replace very: Read Here
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Love as a noun:
— affection, fondness, devotion, infatuation, appreciation

Love as a verb:
— admire, cherish, treasure, prefer, be fond of, be attached to

What is love for you? A noun or a verb? When you are writing about a character who is in love, show his/her actions(verbs) through your writing. As in, how s/he loved someone.
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» Horror/Paranormal/Ghost. These are high-pitched scary stories involving pursuit and escape. The protagonist must overcome supernatural or demonic beings. Occult is a sub-genre that always uses satanic-type antagonists.

» Mystery/Crime.
These are also known as ‘whodunits’. The central issue is a question that must be answered, an identity revealed, a crime solved. This novel is characterised by clues leading to rising tension as the answer to the mystery is approached. There are many sub-genres in this category.
Police Procedurals are mysteries that involve a police officer or detective solving the crime. The emphasis rests heavily on technological or forensic aspects of police work, sorting and collecting evidence, as well as the legal aspects of criminology.

» Historical.
These fictional stories take place against factual historical backdrops. Important historical figures are portrayed as fictional characters. Historical Romance is a sub-genre that involves a conflicted love relationship in a factual historical setting.
Westerns. These books are specifically set in the old American West. Plotlines include survival, romance, and adventures with characters of the time, for example, cowboys, frontiersmen, Indians, mountain men, and miners.

» Family Saga.
This genre is about on-going stories of two or more generations of a family. Plots revolve around things like businesses, acquisition, properties, adventures, and family curses. By their nature, these are primarily historical, often bringing the resolution in contemporary settings. There is usually a timeline involved in these books.

» Women’s Fiction.
These plot lines are characterised by female characters who face challenges, difficulties, and crises that have a direct relationship to gender. This is inclusive of woman’s conflict with man, though not limited to that. It can include conflict with things such as the economy, family, society, art, politics, and religion.

» Magic Realism.
Magical events are part of ordinary life in this genre. The characters do not see them as abnormal or unusual. They are a natural part of the story. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a classic in this genre.

» Literary Fiction.
This genre focuses on the human condition and it is more concerned with the inner lives of characters and themes than plot. Literary fiction is difficult to sell and continues to decline in popularity.

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How to Use Prompts for your Creative Writing Exercise?

1. DON'T Limit Yourself to Prose
2. DON'T Edit as You Write
3. DO Interpret the Prompt Broadly
4. DO Try Switching Up Your Writing Methods
5. DO Mix and Match Prompt Ideas
6. DO Try to write regularly

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"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
~ Cyril Connolly

I strongly recommend this to all aspiring writer. This is how i have come this far as a writer/poet. The question is simple: do you write to please yourself because you like doing it or to please others?

Set on a writing journey, not for others but for yourself. You will reach to a point where you will develop your own personal writing skills and styles for which you will be followed.

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Swap these mundane words with their more intellectual counterparts to enhance sophistication in your communication while speaking or writing:

1. Mundane-Prosaic: While "mundane" merely denotes the everyday and ordinary, the word "prosaic" carries an air of intellectualism, suggesting a deeper understanding of the world around us.

2. Boring-Tedious: Rather than labeling something as "boring," refer to it as "tedious." This word implies a laborious and meticulous nature, adding a layer of thoughtfulness to your description.

3. Interesting-Fascinating: While "interesting" is perfectly serviceable, "fascinating" implies a deeper level of engagement and intrigue, painting a picture of absorbing complexity.

4. Smart-Erudite: Move beyond the simple "smart" and opt for "erudite" to convey a sense of profound knowledge and intellectual prowess.

5. Simple-Elementary: Instead of labeling something as "simple," choose "elementary" to imbue the subject with an aura of foundational significance.

6. Good-Exemplary: When praising something as "good," elevate your expression by using "exemplary," suggesting that it sets a standard to be admired and followed.

7. Bad-Deplorable: Swap out the lackluster "bad" for the more intense "deplorable," adding a touch of gravity to your judgment.

8. Nice-Gracious: Infuse your compliments with elegance by replacing "nice" with "gracious," which carries connotations of kindness and refinement.

9. Happy-Euphoric: To describe an elevated state of happiness, "euphoric" imparts a sense of ecstasy and intellectual understanding of emotional experiences.

10. Said-Articulated: In place of the common "said," choose "articulated" to suggest that thoughts and ideas were conveyed with eloquence and precision.

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21 Great Writing Tips by Famous Authors

1. The first draft of everything is shit. -Ernest Hemingway

2. Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass. -David Ogilvy

3. If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy. – Dorothy Parker

4. Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home. -Paul Theroux

5. I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide. — Harper Lee

6. You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ― Jack London

7. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. — George Orwell

8. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ― W. Somerset Maugham

9. If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time — or the tools — to write. Simple as that. – Stephen King

10. Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong. – Neil Gaiman

11. Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die. – Anne Enright

12. If writing seems hard, it’s because it is hard. It’s one of the hardest things people do. – William Zinsser

13. Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college. – Kurt Vonnegut

14. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. – Ernest Hemingway

15. Write drunk, edit sober. – Ernest Hemingway

16. Get through a draft as quickly as possible. Hard to know the shape of the thing until you have a draft. Literally, when I wrote the last page of my first draft of Lincoln’s Melancholy I thought, Oh, shit, now I get the shape of this. But I had wasted years, literally years, writing and re-writing the first third to first half. The old writer’s rule applies: Have the courage to write badly. – Joshua Wolf Shenk

17. Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. – Mark Twain

18. Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that — but you are the only you. ― Neil Gaiman

19. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. – Oscar Wilde

20. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ― Ray Bradbury

21. Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously. – Lev Grossman

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