21 Tips For Creative Writing

1.) Start with a HOOK

2.) Determine CONFLICT & RESOLUTION before writing

3.) Determine POINT OF VIEW (Narration POV: 1st per. “I” /3rd per. “he”/“she”)

4.) TENSE (Present, Past)

5.) Determine MAJOR GENRE and SUB GENRE (consider a subplot)

6.) Establish MAIN CHARACTER(S) & SETTING(S)

7.) Establish PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS (consistency)

8.) CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: personality traits, tone, dialect (use corks-flaws & gradual method of change)

9.) JUMP INTO SCENE (Start scene late/close to action)

10.) Get to know the CHARACTER(S) through THOUGHTS & DIALOGUE

11.) Start sentence CLEARLY & END it GRACEFULLY

12.) WRITE ACTIONS

13.) End SCENE early

14.) Use METAPHORS, CHIASMUS, PARADOX, PERSONIFICATION, SIMILES, EXPRESSION, ONOMATOPOEIA, INTERJECTIONS, slang & accents in DIALOGUE (conversational terminology, with respect to language & culture)

15.) Use vivid COLORS

16.) EXPAND VOCABULARY (use a variety of words accurately)

17.) FREE MODIFIERS: PRESUMPTIVE & SUMMATIVE

18.) SENSORY DETAIL

19.) ACTIVE VERBS & STRONG NOUNS

20.) Manipulate TROPES

21.) Establish what’s IMPORTANT to the MAIN CHARACTER(S) (MC) in the beginning. Let the READER KNOW what THE STORY will be about in the FIRST CHAPTER.

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