Writing Forward weekly digest

Here are the latest two Writing Forward weekly digests for my followers to peruse:

Writing Forward | Weekly Digest Excerpts: Storytelling: Writing Chapters and Scenes Today’s post includes excerpts from What’s the Story? Building Blocks for Fiction Writing, chapter nine: “Chapters, Scenes, and Sequences.” Enjoy! Chapters, scenes, and sequences are structural units of storytelling. These are the basic blocks of a story that contain all other elements, from characters, plot, and setting to action, dialogue, and description. Chapters are units within […] Read on » How to Play and Pretend Your Way to Breakthrough Writing Ideas My little niece used to love to sit with a grown-up book spread across her lap, reading a story out loud — except she couldn’t read yet. She was making it all up — pretending. During play, she invented new words. One time we were playing with some toys, and I asked one of their […] Read on »     Recent Articles: A Generation of Writers The 22 Best Writing Tips Ever Creative Writing Prompts That Explore Society and Culture A Writer’s Guide to Types of Publishing Companies Poetry Writing Exercises in Space and Time   Share   Tweet   What's the Story? Building Blocks for Fiction Writing is available from your favorite online bookseller.     Adventures in Writing: The Complete Collection       101 Creative Writing Exercises Copyright © 2017 Bookworms and Wordsmiths, All rights reserved.

Writing Forward | Weekly Digest Excerpts: A Generation of Writers “Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.” — Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg is one of my favorite storytellers. He and I have something in common: we were both English majors! He knows what he’s talking about when he emphasizes the importance of reading. The simplicity and elegance of Spielberg’s remark makes […] Read on » The 22 Best Writing Tips Ever Today, I’m sharing one of the oldest and most popular posts on Writing Forward. This one dates back to 2007, but it’s still one of the most-visited posts on the blog and one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy these writing tips and find them useful! Brian Clark over at Copyblogger has issued a […] Read on »     Recent Articles: Creative Writing Prompts That Explore Society and Culture A Writer’s Guide to Types of Publishing Companies Poetry Writing Exercises in Space and Time Writing Tips from E.B. White: Write Now! Writing Description in Fiction   Share   Tweet   What's the Story? Building Blocks for Fiction Writing is available from your favorite online bookseller.     Adventures in Writing: The Complete Collection       101 Creative Writing Exercises Copyright © 2017 Bookworms and Wordsmiths, All rights reserved.