Using Placeholders to Draft Romance Novels
Your first draft should be you telling the story to yourself. In the flurry of passion, the pressure to find the perfect words for every scene, moment of dialogue, or character description can often lead to writer’s block. I struggled with my perfectionism for years until I found a little trick that successfully helped me work around it. Placeholders. Placeholders are temporary stand-ins for elements you haven’t fully fleshed out or refined yet. They allow you to keep the momentum of your writing going without getting anchored down by the details.
6 Key Steps to Creating Compelling Book Characters
Character development is the process of creating and evolving fictional characters over the course of a story. The goal of character development is to create complex and multidimensional characters that readers can relate to and empathize with.
The 6 Steps of the Creative Writing Process
Knowing the steps of the creating writing process will help aspiring storytellers feel more comfortable in their craft. The more comfortable and confident you are when you approach your writing, the more likely you are to write consistently, and the more likely you will be to enter creative writing flows more frequently.
8 Elements of Effective Creative Writing
Don’t wait for the perfect time or the right level of confidence to embark on the journey of becoming a creative writer. The Word Count is here to help guide you because every word counts.
Wherefore Art Thou: The Complete History of Poetry
Happy #PoetryMonth! The Mahābhārata (the longest epic poem ever created) was written in 400BCE.
According to the surviving texts, this poem lasted for 100,000 couplets and was extended from a 24,000-couplet version called Bhārata.