Writing

One Piece Story Arcs: How Much Of The Story Is Left?

The story that goes forever.

One Piece is the best selling shonen manga that has held the top position for many years, with many of its volumes reaching beyond the million sale mark. Truly, One Piece has become a…

31 Guaranteed Ways to NOT Create a Successful Blog

10 of the Greatest First Lines in Literature (and what you can learn about writing from them)

The Ultimate Regurgitation of Epic Info About Writing on Medium.com

Semi-Organized Lists of Tips I’ve…

12 Stimulating Things You Can Do at the Library

How to Choose a Domain Name for Your Author Website

【編輯力系列之一】專業的好編輯幫你上天堂，但好編輯並不便宜，也不該便宜

一位部落客付高薪請資深編輯幫忙調整文章，部落格的訪客增加了 450 倍。他寫了一篇文章，分析專業編輯對他帶來的幫助，十分值得參考。

Five Reasons You Should Start Your Fiction Writing Career with Short Stories

The 7 Stages of Writing a Startup Funding Proposal

If You Want to Be a Good Writer, Write BADLY

What makes writing so powerful is the process — Jeff Goins

Starting a Money-Making Blog in 2019: New Method That's 100X Faster

The Comprehensive 4 Section Guide

Submitting Your Short Stories to Literary Magazines: Processes Involved

Erotica As A Literary Genre

Erotica is easily the most misunderstood of all genres. Even people who think they write Erotica don’t…

Jenny Duran

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“This is one of those things you’ll regret not doing,” Jenny laughed from behind me.

How I Sold Almost 30,000 eBooks

The winning strategy behind the marketing techniques

Screenwriting Back to Basics, Day 1: Writing Scenes

Google Docs Style Collaboration with LaTeX

As a graduate student, I’ve worked on more than a few group projects and papers…

Self-Awareness is the Key to Good Writing

How to make great content by challenging your inner-voice

You’re Nothing Without Goals

Take it from me — the queen of indecision.

How I Used Fear to Develop New Habits

Or, How to Run From Something Versus Working towards Something

An Interview with Natalie Baszile: Writing Queen Sugar and More

Game, Set, Match: How to Zero in on Your Book’s Target Audience Using Geographic Segmentation

Hello, fellow writer of words.

You’ve been up to something, haven’t you?

Nobody Is A Naturally Gifted Writer

Do not let their skills fool you. They just make it look easy.

10 Muji Stationary Items for Digital Product Designers

Write like a Human Being

The other day I was reading an article where the author was talking about the benefits of waking up early. But…

Announcing the Enigma Writing Contest Finalists — Voting is Open!

Presenting the top six pieces of community writing. Get ready to vote!

Publishers and literary agents applaud the rise of cli-fi genre novels as the Earth heats up in next 40 years

by Dan Bloom, Editor, ‘’The Cli-Fi Report’’ (cli-fi.net)

The cyclical natural…

Plot = Structure

A screenplay is a unique literary form. It both tells a story and serves as a blueprint to make a movie. As such, understanding structure is a critical component to the craft. Check out the observations of these screenwriting veterans:

“The reality is that the single most…

Talin’s Index of Essays

Diverse topics including computer games, politics, philosophy and science fiction.

Autobiographical Essays

Covering my 25 years in the computer game industry, my time at Google and Electronic arts, and much more…

How Writing is More Than Just Words on Paper

As writers, we push ourselves to deliver the best. We look for ways that will help…

Orwell’s 2018 | Part 1 | The pulse that never stops

“History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in…

Character By Character: A Revision Method that Works

Book Review: 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

When I stray online, occasionally meet this famous excerpt from 100 Ways to…

Must Read for Entrepreneurs: How to Sell Your Startup for a Big Payout

Anyone who says entrepreneurship is easy is either lucky, lying, or lacking in self-awareness.

Being an entrepreneur is tough.

Here’s What I Learned After 2 Months As An Editor

All the tea and all the learning curve…

Interview With Joanna C. Valente, author of Sexting Ghosts

10 Best Weight-Loss-Friendly Food You Should Include In Your Diet Right Now:

Pitfalls of Love according to F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is considered prophetic as four years after its publication there were the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression. It is considered a staple of its time but, today, it is still read throughout the world, perhaps because its…

The Best Easy-To-Use Online Writing Tools in 2018

Overcoming Writer’s Block: A Dance with Hungry Alligators

Why Don’t More People Talk About How Making Money Blogging is Hard ASF?!

2018 Scene-Writing Challenge: Day 11

Write some scenes. Win a great prize.

For the sixth straight year, August is Scene-Writing Month here at Go Into The Story. Every Monday-Friday, I will upload a post with a scene-writing prompt. Each day, write a scene per those…

The Three Traits That’ll Set You Up To Fail On Medium

What you can do about them and grow from them.

SOBRE A RETÓRICA E O ETHOS, LOGOS E PATHOS DOS BISCOITOS DA SORTE

A discussão sobre retórica como a…

如何運用你的思考腦

the human brain

有沒有想過究竟為什麼，

TAKING A BREAK

If vacation does one thing for me, it is the reminder to slow down and take stock of my daily life when I return. From what and how I eat, and where I shop for the food I have to have once I return, ( Azorean butter for example) to how I exercise and go through my day to contemplating the busy-ness and the…

The Influence of Others

Daily Publish Project #3

WILLIAM FAULKNER

As a boy, William Faulkner had been fascinated by planes. As a young man, after the United States entered World War I, he went to…

Bloggers to the Rescue

When I started blogging in November 2016, I decided to write one piece a week, and post it every Monday morning. I…

being with you in Seattle

we talked beats over beets

How to Become a Bestselling Author: Advice from Milana Perepyolkina

I had the pleasure of interviewing Milana…

Want to Be More Productive? Watch a Kid

Occam’s Razor Revisited

If someone revised your sales writing, would you close more deals?

Four Tips for Spurring Creativity (and avoiding cliché writing)

Can You Hear Your Brain Singing?

Once when my youngest child was smaller than she is now, she accompanied me as I vacuumed the living…

When Is The Best Time to Get An Editor?

I’ve been working with writers in a professional capacity for several years now and I’ve…

Why I Write

By Carrie Allen

Why do I write? This is a ridiculous question that, in my opinion, does not need any justification, but…

This is What I Genuinely Like About Social Media

It’s a matter of perspective

I am supremely pissed off.

This was the perfect reminder…. that I needed to read this morning….

Because I am supremely pissed off.

For real.

No kidding.

A Rejection to Warm a Writer’s Heart

She listened to my story.

Daily Dialogue — August 20, 2018

Andrews: I asked you a simple question. Do you love my daughter?
Peter: Yes! But don’t hold that against me! I’m a little screwy myself!

— It Happened One Night (1934), screen play by Robert Riskin, based on a short…

Never let a past relationship be like your favorite dish of mom’s

Never let a past relationship you were in be like your favorite mom’s dish, don’t let it come to that…

I have read somewhere that our first relationship, is the one we never can forget, the…

【失敗作品集】 讓家不遠－奇美部落採訪報導

除了國外出差，這應該是我印象最深的一次採訪行程，雖然行前和行程中都遇到一些溝通問題，但也許是這座部落本身太迷人，也許是當時的我處於創作的巔峰期，所以回來後硬是花了幾天寫完這篇文章。

Time To Make A Change?

As I sat stationary, in what seemed like a never-ending line of automobiles in which the drivers were present yet…

Build Your Story World to Plan Your Novel for NaNoWriMo

Worldbuilding or World Deconstructing?

Don’t Play God When Worldbuilding, Play Detective

Letter 6：Love

Dear Positiva：

關於愛，妳我知道多少呢？這個詞彙說來簡單，但裡頭實在包含太多難以數算的複雜與微妙，這個世界對於「愛」的定義，也實在有太多模樣。

Ireland: A Poet’s Journey of Self-Discovery

Galway was dark and rainy. The bay was gothic, cold, vast, a daunting expanse, lined…

What stream-of-consciousness looks like

{I can’t believe I’m letting you read this}

This is an example of stream-of-consciousness writing.

A Trip to Mordor

Have you being to Uja before? Do you plan to visit there before the end of the 21st century? I’m sorry, but I just returned from…

How to Write Without a Degree

Spoiler: You don't need a degree to write. You just need time…

On Writing

“I think creativity is everywhere. I see creativity with my grandmother cooking. I see it at the winery, making wine. I see creativity with…

Handling the Disappointment of Rejection

Along the road to becoming a successful novelist, every writer bumps into a set of…

Always Watching

From A Distance.

Jerry, I’m just in the process now of rewriting the first novel I ever wrote. Years ago. In fact, I’m serializing it here on Medium.

When I read through it a few weeks ago, I was astonished by how terrible much of it was. ;-) Embarrassing!

1. A 100 day Challenge!

An opportunity to get back to what I loved doing years back!

An Irrelevant Day

Through the narrow door, onto another place

With chairs to spare, a confined and simple space

Diary of Writing a Novel; Week 24

Writing again. Feeling good.

3 ‘Duh’ Moments In One Week

Alledgely, everyone has stuck on stupid moments.

Reasons Why I Envy Talented Music Writers

Have you ever heard a song on the radio and wish you were the person to write those…

Putting My Struggle On Blast

When will our world be a safe place to put our struggle on blast? When will it be easier to come out than to stay in?

If only it were an abstract dictionary definition that were the problem. I would write to the Merriam Webster company and suggest an alteration to better match contemporary usage:

(B) An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the…

A Poetry Prompt: Stimulation

Here’s your weekly poetry prompt. Enjoy!

The Prompt

We want you to write one poem of average contemporary length. The structure/rhythm is entirely up to you, but make sure you pay close attention to the following two…

The Hours that Go into 90 Seconds

How does an author turn a novel into a 90-second book trailer?

Writing, promotion and argh!

If a first-time author searches for anything to read about the self-publishing process, most other authors…

Why I write or I’ve Got to Get This Sh*t Out Somehow!

This is kind of raw and scary for me.

Why writing is still № 1 skill required by employers

And the survey said ….

DEVELOPMENT OF FRANCHISE INDUSTRY IN THE USA

The US Department of Commerce views the franchise marketing as one of the most…

How to #helloontinder

Have you come across tens of men/women on tinder with horrible bio?

5 TIPS for new writers

I think we all can recognize a good story when we start reading one, it pulls you in, and it drives you to read the story to the very end, regardless if it is a book or an internet article you feel you cannot let yourself skip or God forbid skim through the text. Naturally, some authors…

Neon Moon

I told you that this blog was going to have more life to it at some point. Again, I am not a one trick pony and I expect my website to fully…

Why It’s Hard to Write

it’s tough to break this cycle. the cycle where i peruse through dozens of my drafts and find reasons why i shouldn’t…

Introducing…LitPop!

Once upon a time an English department started a fun little literary and cultural studies blog. The grad students in charge…

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There is truth in the old saying, that the style is the man — or the woman, as the case may be. It applies in all fields of…

My first Writer’s Block Experience

Having written over four blogs for the Andela Developer Challenge, I thought that writing a blog…

Content Creation: How To Not Be Overwhelmed By The Work

Adventures in Reading on Medium

It’s Not Just For Writers, Anymore!

Haiku String

falling in love
eating a stranger’s fingerprints
off the apple

Guide to personalizing leather gifts

In a world filled with automation and mass production, true craftsmanship is a lost art…

Grammarly Student Discount Offer

Grammarly is the best online proofreader tool. It helps both native and non-native language speakers to write articles without any errors. Not only that, writers, bloggers, students who write in English can write without any errors with the help of Grammarly.

Phone-Free Concert, Being Present, & Writing

Below me, a sea of humans jostle for space, chat, sip on amber-tinted beverages…

Imagining Empathy

At the beginning of May, I had the opportunity to go to a talk with Clint Smith, writer and scholar, and Jesmyn Ward, author of “Sing Unburied Sing.” I hadn’t read Jesmyn Ward’s latest book yet, but I was excited to hear her talk about it. She‘s been heralded as the William Faulkner of our time…

I had to buy this because I suck a gratitude journals

New school year, here we go again

Here’s a glimpse of my PURE 3600 syllabus. I am adding a few wrinkles too on assignments.

Forgotten Things

Emma watched the man with the hunched shoulders and the tattered coat walk past her window. Part of her mind twinged in…

He only had fifteen minutes.

What could he do in fifteen minutes?

Lifestyle and Literature: Pushing Through the Monday Blues

“Waking up exhausted on a Monday morning isn’t anything…