Techniques for Cultivating Creative Writing Ideas – by Deborah Lyn…

Techniques for Cultivating Creative Writing Ideas – by Deborah Lyn… Make cultivating ideas part of your writing process. Creative writing needs inspiration—motivation will follow quickly to get that personal essay, story, or novel written! “To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play.” And “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, […]

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Character Development: Narrative Time by Connie J. Jasperson

Character Development: Narrative Time Last week, we discussed how the descriptive narrative of a story is comprised of three aspects: Narrative point of view is the perspective, a personal or impersonal “lens” through which a story is communicated. Narrative time is the grammatical placement of the story’s time frame in the past or the present, i.e., present tense (we go) […]

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