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With weekly writing exercises, inspirational photos and poems, and daily thoughts on the writing life, Creative Writing Corner is for the writer in all of us.
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Author: Blair Hurley

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Do You Deny or Accept Obstacles?

Aug 3, 2009
One fascinating thing about both observing people and creating characters is the wide variety of ways that they can look at the world. Some people are realists, some pessimists, some hopelessly...

Photo of the Week

Jun 5, 2009
5***** Stars Urbex Hotel, originally uploaded by Batram. This urban, burnt-out setting is certainly evocative; there are a lot stories that could have taken place in this photograph. What do YOU...

Being A Writer Among Scientists

May 19, 2009
Do you operate in a social community that's filled with writers like yourself? Sometimes I envy the kinds of people who are surrounded by literary friends, and sometimes I'm very glad that I've...

How Much Research does Your Writing Require?

Feb 4, 2009
As I mentioned before, I'm hard at work on a very long short story that will hopefully include many elements combined of past stories. I want this story to have a strong backbone and a rich level of depth, so I'm doing a little more work than I usua...

Look at a Classic Story for Structure

Nov 30, 1999
Reading a classic short story can be immensely helpful for cultivating tone, mood, and syntax. On top of these details, though, I find that my sense of a story's structure has come less from trial and error and more from noticing the structure of...

A quick bit of news: I've updated pricing plans for...

Dec 6, 2009
A quick bit of news: I've updated pricing plans for advertising on Creative Writing Corner, as well as adding new advertising options. For the first time, text ads will be sold on my RSS feed. The Creative Writing Corner feed has over 4,500 subscribers...

A quick bit of news: I've updated pricing plans for...

Dec 6, 2009
A quick bit of news: I've updated pricing plans for advertising on Creative Writing Corner, as well as adding new advertising options. For the first time, text ads will be sold on my RSS feed. The Creative Writing Corner feed has over 4,500 subscribers...

How to Use Anxiety and Paranoia in Your Writing

Dec 6, 2009
If you're interested in writing about something a little different from family values, I'd like to tell you about anxiety in your fiction. One of the things that keeps a reader turning the pages is feeling anxious for the character's welfare, even if...

How to Find Your Voice

Dec 3, 2009
  What new voice will you bring to the world? Again and again through college and grad school, my professors have told me that finding your voice is more than half the battle of writing a good novel or story. You can play around, write buckets of...

Read a Genre Novel For Structure

Nov 29, 2009
This past week my professor gave his class an interesting challenge: to read a "crappy" novel and study it seriously. Specifically, he wanted us to read a "genre" novel, by which he meant one of those paperbacks whose plot fits snugly into the...




Kim Thirion
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  This is one of the best and informative blogs I've read in a long time. Great ideas!
Posted 9/9/09 11:09 AM