THE USE OF TAGS

In dialogue construction, it is not good for a writer to employ the excessive use of dialogue tags. It is not proper because it can render a dialogue useless. It will make it look terrible an unprofessional. When writing dialogues that are good and effective, dialogue tags should be used minimally, especially when the speaker can be identified. When the speaker can be identified, it is better to move on with the conversation. When a writer constantly make use of tags like, 'Hi there,' he cried., 'Fine thank you ma,' she shrilled. 'No, father,' he cried., you'll find the conversation stilted and sounding extremely childish in the speeches made by the characters. But you can make use of, 'He said', 'She said', but do not make it too panoramic for your readers to start wondering what its all about. Do not tell, let your speeches or dialogues and tags draw your readers attention and interest to feel, see, hear and understand the events and what is happening. Make use of the tags sensible.

WRITING COMPETITIONS

WRITING COMPETITIONS The year is coming to an end and writers who have toiled and worked hard to put down stories of fiction down in writing are out there looking for ways in which their manuscripts can be submitted and accepted by agents and publishers, but I have something better for you. Take a look at the site this post will lead you to and submit your manuscripts for competitions going on right now. Your story may turn out to be a winner and off, you go to stardom. Take the bold step friends and try them out, fame is only available to those who seek them out. Good luck! Don't forget to come back and tell us your beautiful experience.

THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW

The third person point of view is achieved when the narrator uses the pronoun 'he' or 'she' to narrate the story. The narrator is an outsider relaying the story and the various actions. The third person point of view can be third person omniscient or third person limited. THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT: In third person point of view omniscient,all the character's thoughts, environment, actions, everything about him or her are known and related to the readers. Take an insight at this, Annabel came out of the house, looked about her and noticed the cool, calm, serenity of the walkway. She took a deep breath and said, 'What a peaceful world this is.' She inhaled deeply again and started walking down the cobbled stone case and down the walkway. Obi at the other end of the walkway, standing like a Mable statute stood arms akimbo, watching her taking those dainty steps of hers as she took one step after the other towards his direction. From the above you can see the thoughts and actions of the characters is known by the disclosure of their thoughts and action. THE THIRD PERSON LIMITED: In third person limited, only one character's perspective in the story is used to relay the story events and actions. For example, 'This old woman has been the sole of this building since the time I came to live in this street.' You can see that the relaying of the event is from the a character's perspective.

THE SECOND PERSON POINT OF VIEW

In the second person point of view is a narrative mood which is rarely used except by writers that are very good in it. The use of You, your and yours are employed in the narration.The writer hooks the reader withe the use of You as if they are conversing. For example, 'You have the power to make trees move.' The use of You, your and yours are used in speeches, sports reports and such writings. Contributions are welcomed.

FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW

The first person point of view explained simply is a point of view from which the narrator tells his or her story for readers to see, hear and feel the roles of the characters in a story. 'I' or 'We', 'Me-my-mine' are used to narrate the story. The narrator may not be a major character in the story but an observer and it is from his/her perspective that readers get to know what is taking place in the events and story. It is left for the reader to decipher the truth in the story he/she is narrating. I hope a touched a little of what you are looking for. Additions are welcomed.

HOW TO END A FICTION STORY

The ending of a fiction story is what gives the readers the satisfaction of what became of the characters in the story. The characters in the story should be compensated according to the actions he/she had played in the story. The characters that had played a bad role should be justly given an ending that befits that role and a good character should be made to reap the seed he had sown. It would be bad to apportion a reward that is beneficial to a bad character unless the character repents and starts doing good. Try to be considerate in delivering your endings.

WRITING THE MIDDLE OF A FICTION STORY

Writing the middle of a fiction story deserves a deep thought and concentration to get it in the right direction. Some writers tend to keep the story from beginning to the end in a run on nature but it shouldn't be that way. Every

writer needs to move on with a greater improvement of their writing skills. I have on looking back from when I first published my fiction story seen that there are better ways I would have written that particular story, it's always like that with writers and artists. Right now the middle of a story is very important to avoid a saggy middle. Write the beginning of the middle, the way you'll write the beginning of the beginning and then follow it with a driving force down to the end of the middle because that is the critical and crucial part of the story. If the middle sags, the interest of the reader wanes and when boredom comes in, the reader will drop the book and shy away from books from such a writer. Any contributions?

HOW TO WRITE THE BEGINNING OF A STORY

Hi friends, I'm back again to start off with the writing of a fiction story once again.

How do writers begin the story they want to write? Do they start with once upon a time like olden days writers used to do or how? Getting a story started in the beginning is the aromatic stew that readers perceive and are drawn into wanting to have a nice taste of reading the novel you have written. So, what do you do at the beginning of a story? Good, dive right into the middle of the story if you can and gingerly stir the story towards the rest of the events. Starting a story with weather conditions in a rigmarole distance a reader from the novel. Write as if the incident is happening live and capture your audience.

GETTING READY FOR A WRITING CAREER

Hello friends I'm back once again to kick off where we stopped. Yeah, we are off to getting you started in your writing career that you have finally agreed to embark on. What are the things necessary for you to have as a career writer? Get yourself a Laptop or computer of any type you can conveniently use. Get a notebook or jotter and pen. And you are ready to go. I have taken into consideration that you may want to purchase these materials for your work and embedded amazon store widget on the right sidebar of this blog for you easily shop for any item you may need from there. The books for your tutorials and whatever you need can be obtained from that link including free downloads. Just click on what you want under the right category and you are off. Although when you purchase anything from that link,I'll be earning a commission, it will go a long way to helping you achieve your life dreams. Have a nice time.

WHY CREATE YOUR OWN SETTING

   When it comes to writing fiction stories, I think creating your own story setting is very important because with your setting in your hands, you have all the tools, that is your own imagination to carve your story setting the way you want it to look like.
   Choosing a ready made setting like the ones written in my previous post is good but you have to dance to the tune of the creators of those settings, thereby limiting your drive.
   Take your time, think very well and sharpen your imagination and then bring out the best you can when carving out your story setting.
   In my own case each time I pick up my pen to write a story, I like creating my own setting to my taste and always come out with wonderful works.
   My agent and other publishers have told me that, which you can see when you read my fiction novels of which one is in the bookstores.
   Power tussle is a powerful fiction story that I will place here for you to pick up and read and then give me your opinion about it and what I am trying to portray.
    power tussle

TYPES OF SETTING LOCATIONS

   From all the lectures and books we have read in schools and other places, we can broadly classify setting in fiction writing under certain types so that a writer can easily know which type of setting to choose from and use in writing his/her story. He/she can also use it to identify where his/her story setting falls into.
   Below are the different types of setting in fiction stories.
1. Deep sea world settings
2. Fantasy worlds
3. Dystopian world
4. Omicron and Unicorn worlds
5.Mythical worlds
6. Imaginary worlds
7. Utopian worlds
8.Disc worlds
9. Fictional city
10. Fictional universe
11. Science fiction worlds
12.Tralfalmadore settings
13. Alternative historical worlds
14. Shadow world settings
15. Colonial and post colonial worlds and other worlds too.
   I will welcome any other type of setting you can contribute to this page friends, have a nice day.

HOW TO CHOOSE A GOOD SETTING

   Choosing a good setting when writing a fiction story is very very important and for sure writing your interesting theme without a befitting setting is like building a wonderful mansion with no site for it to be placed.
   So, you have to sit down and give your story a deep and good thought of a setting that will actually match it for it to be more realistic.
   In the next posts, I will be writing about different settings and the necessity for you to create your own setting.
   Any comment? I love your contributions.

THE GENRES OF COMMERCIAL FICTION

   We have discussed in my earlier posts that there are two types of fiction, the commercial fiction and the literary fiction which you now know. Today, I will be writing on the commercial fiction genres to enable you understand where your story falls in and the genre of you are writing.
   Below are the different genres that exists in commercial fiction broken in a simple form.
1. Mystery fiction
2. Science fiction
3.Fantasy fiction
4. Western fiction
5. Horror fiction
6.Thriller fiction
7. Romance fiction and
8. Historical fiction

THE NEED FOR A WRITING TUTORIAL

    Friends welcome once again to this blog. I hope you have actually started writing your story and if so I am very happy that you actually have.
   There is a little advice though that I will like to give you and what is that? It is that is if you are finding it had to plan, plot or set your story to make it look realistic it will be better you take a short course or tutorial on how to write fiction novels or attend workshops that will be very helpful in seeing you through the writing process.
 

START A STORY

   Hello friends, landing on this page is not a coincident, we are meant to meet somehow and what do I have for today?
   Well, I wanted to be sure you have started writing your story.
   You've been reading my posts and from the few things I've been talking about starting your own story I expect you must have started by now.
   If I should start narrating the way I started my writing career, you wouldn't believe it. Briefly let me let you in.
   I found myself in a condition that I could barely sustain myself and my family when teachers' salaries where not being paid regularly in my country at the time. Out of frustration, I went one day into one of our rooms and lay down on a flat mattrass thinking about my life.
   That was when my mind started drifting away towards various kinds of events and ideas, assuming they were real. It dawn on me that I could turn these into stories, know what I did? I took a notebook and pen and started drafting and planning the stories I was going to write and before I actually knew what was happenning, I had written multiple stories.
   I decided to have one of them published to see if it would work out and behold, the agents and pulishers I sent the manuscript to all were enthusiastic about publishing it, only Avon publishers replied that they were not accepting manuscript submissions then.
   My friends, when I sit back in reminiscence, I wondered each time how I could been able to cook up such an interesting story- very, very interesting story. You can check it out at the bookstores online. "Power tussle by Silverline Odigwe.
   I am not trying to convince you to purchase it but you can try to read it and reach me back on this blog to let me know how you feel about it. If you buy it, you are helping me make sales too but I will very much welcome your comments which I value most because I want you to do what I did.
   So my good friends have a nice time.

DIFICULTIES AND CHALLENGES IN WRITING BOOKS

   People love reading novels and the also like to write novels themselves but certain factors act as barriers or stumbling blocks towards their achieving those dreams and soon those started off manuscripts or ideas in their heads are left to rot or die away.in silence.
   What are these difficulties and challenges? I blieve we can try to sort them into these categories.
  1.I AM TOO YOUNG OR OLD FOR IT
     Yes, many people feel that age is a depriving factor in their lives to achieving their dreams but what they fail to understand is that everyone has his or her own time destined for him or her to carry out certain things in life. Your aspirations may come at a tender age or at a time when you are older but never let that be a barrier to our success. Get it down and out on paper and published, be a famous personality in your early life or in your later years of life and die famous remaining a household name.Your generation will enjoy that.
2. SITUATIONS AND DIFFICULTIES
      Some people when hit with situations like illness, financial incapacitation and family disagreement or other factors prevent themselves from writing and making it. Some day, I'll write out factors in my life that would have hindered me from being the writer I am today, but take it from me forge ahead for the sky is never the limit.
   Thank have a nice time. Any comment?

How to write good fiction stories

  Fiction is a branch of literature in a story form that may be short or long, written by an author in a way that, lives of fictitious characters are made to come alive in the various roles they play in the untrue story the author has created from his/her own imagination.
  Many people say writers are born with pens in their hands and storytelling in their heads, but let me tell you this, anyone interested in becoming a writer can become one, if he/she is ready to learn. All you need to do is, read wide and learn from other writers and published authors.
  Here are a few tips to get you started in your journey to writing a good fiction story.

  TIPS:

 * Have a good and catchy story idea.

 * Find out the genre the the story idea falls into.For example, a story idea of this sort, 'Kate falling in love with Justin in a city where she was lonely and hardly knew anyone. She needed love and someone special beside her and when caring, handsome and dashing looking Justin came along, she fell head over heels in love with him,' will fall in the genre of romance than any other genre.

 * Pick u p books from that genre you want to write on and read them taking note of the way they are written, the paging and formatting and other aspects you can observe as you read them.

 * Your story idea is ready in your hands, you are acquainted with the genre you want to write on, the next thing to do is,to follow the steps I have written out below, it will be of great help to you.

  STEPS:

  1. PLOT: the story you are about to write has to follow an order from the starting point to the finishing point and the events have to follow in sequence so that one event will lead to the other accordingly. So you have to map out a plan and follow it accordingly. The story has to have a beginning, a middle and an end.

 2. SETTING: the story has to take place in an environment at a particular period, so you have to create the place to blend with the time, era, culture and world that best suits it. A story that took place in a medieval period will look absurd and unrealistic when written to take place in the modern times.

 3. CHARACTERS: the people you use in the story are the characters. You have to get characters that are well developed with actions to play out the roles you have allocated to them and these characters actions have to seem realistic to your readers.

 4.POINT OF VIEW: what point of view do you want to use in writing out your story? Is it a first person point of view, second person point of view or third person point of view? Is it third person limited or third person omniscient? You should make a choice of using the one that will flow better with you.

 5.DIALOGUE: this is how your characters interact with one another. The way the speak to one another and the actions that follow their speech. You have to show and not tell. Let your characters speak in a manner that befits their status and educational levels, check out character profiles.

 6. STYLE: write in your own way, never copy someone's work be original in your work and you'll discover your own voice as you grow in your career. As you write, your readers will be able to identify your style from the way you craft and write your story, keep it original and let your work seem original.

 7.WORKSHOP: attend or join writers workshops where you'll meet like minds and both published and unpublished writers that can be of help to you in your career as a writer. There you'll share ideas and trainings that will be highly beneficial.

 8. CRITIQUE GROUPS/FORUMS: join critique groups and forums where your story will be critiqued and you'll also critique other writers work that are starters like you or professionals that will bring out the best in your work. But, remember to take the criticism in good faith and make corrections where necessary.

 9. EDIT: when you have corrected the story, read and reread it. If possible, give it to someone else to read it and edit it for you, they'll see some mistakes you may have passed by or you can send  to a professional editor that will go over the story and make the necessary corrections and you'll pay a small fee.

 10. PUBLISHING: your story is now ready to go out into the final stage, send it out to an agent or publisher that seeks for submissions in the genre you have written.

  Good luck! 






 

WHY ASPIRING WRITERS NEED WRITING COURSES

  Hi friends, I'm back once again this time to tell you something very useful.
  You've been reading my articles and following them with deep interest, thanks. Now is the time to get down to real talks. Your mind is made up to start writing and you have the theme you want to write on, good. But, you still need an extra thing and what is that thing? You need the technical know how. You need to know alot more things than just writing away without the necessary brush ups and by the time the story is published, faces are turned away from what you have on the shelve in the name of a novel.
   Get yourself some education in story writing where you will be taught how to write fiction stories and all that is associated with it. Everything, and then you become an expert in your field.
   In guide to an investment written by Robert Kiyiosaki, he said that getting skills in what ever you want to do makes you better in that field and richer you know.
   You can attend a writing school from home or wherever but get the brush up and fire ahead.
   There are some good places you can go and get them.
   I'll be reaching you soon to let you know about them.
   Thanks.
 

WRITING A STORY FROM EXPERIENCED SITUATION

   Yes, I'm back as I promised the other day to tell how a great writer today made his money from a heart broken situation he experienced.
   Jordi was a handsome young man of twenty five, he fell in love with Shakilar a cherubic beauty that took most of his breathe away and guess what happened to this wonderful love bound? Two years later, the love became so deep that Shakilar became afraid and felt it was too good to be true. She took a clean walk leaving Jordi behind completely heart broken.
   Jordi could not bear the loss of his sweetheart neither could he live without her. He became a nervous wreck and ended up in a psychiatric hospital.
   Preye another handsome young man fell in love with a young lovely angel Annette who came into his life like a whirlwind twirling his emotions into stability and all of a sudden it was marriage or nothing else.
   The preparations were made and everything was set. Visitors and well wishers were invited and the day arrived for the wedding.
   Preye arrived at the altar waiting for his wonderful bride with beaming smiles wrethed all over his face but she never showed up at all.
   Preye was broken hearted but took the bull by the tail, wrote out his torrid emotions on paper, got over it and released it as an emotional outburst song, "You've broken my heart". At the end, Preye's song became a hit and best seller. He became famous and rich. When Annette heard this, she came to congratulate him but by then, there were so many beautiful girls swimming around Preye that he took no notice of her. But he felt happy because Annette had been used as an instrument to bring out the best in him.
  You can see why we can turn our life situations into a perfect hit instead of walloping in misery.
  Have a wonderful time as you start your writing, any comment? You are welcome!

TURNING LIFE SITUATIONS INTO FICTION STORIES

   Life is full of ups and downs but one thing is for sure, no matter the situation, we are alive so must try to wade through the dregs and joys of life to our own good use and we can sometimes turn these situations into money making ones that we will benefit at the end. We can turn our life happenings into stories changing the names of those involved if we do not want disclosure. At last, we find solutions to these difficulties we encountered and in turn while writing these stories offer advise in a way that others can learn from. it  This takes us away from sitting down and brooding over life and its difficulties and problems, letting us fall victims of nervous break down.
   Below are reasons why I believe we can do this and be successful with it.
1. When you write life situations as stories, it takes you the writer away from your sorrows, your problems and transport you into a realm you never thought existed.
2. What you are writing will be a source of lesson to others who may be having similar problems you are writing about.
3. It will remove boredom in the lives of those reading it
4 It may turn out to be a best selling story.

5. When it is published, it may lead you to fame and stardom.
   At the end, you become a winner because man on earth is not supposed to be sad, we are built to be happy, to love and be loved. So, let us try to use situations in story creating for others to learn from and for our own benefits.
   Watch out for a life situation turned into a story in my next post.
   Thanks for reading this article.