Free Writing Tips for Christians Who Write for Children and Young Adults

Hello again everyone! Hope your writing is going well. I have a creative writing tip today that comes from a real example!

If you are writing about an event or a situation you haven’t…

Good morning fellow writers! Today I have a creative writing tip for you on a subject we don’t look at very often: antagonists.

For those of you who aren’t quite sure what an antagonist is, here’s the dictionary definition:

An antagonist is a person who . . .

Hello again Christian writer friends! Here’s another creative writing tip for you:

Think carefully before you start your story with the weather. Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot*, you might want to keep it

NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writers Month – yes, that means writing a novel in a month! In November of each year, fiction writers who have been thinking about writing, sit down and write, starting on 1st, right through to 30th.

Are you up for that? You set yourself a target . . .

Readers need some description, to be able to truly engage with the characters and their actions, but if there is too much flowery prose, readers can lose interest in the plot. Action can become stilted as the flow of the story slows down. If, on the other hand . . .

Being a published author is the aim of many writers, but you don’t have to go down that route. You can have your book printed yourself, print your story off and have it spiral-bound, make it into an ebook, put it on audio, have it serialised in your church magazine, give your children the story printed out on A4 sheets of paper (don’t forget to number them!), or . . .

The first draft of our novel is there to be improved.

When you are going over it, looking for ways to add pace, interest and atmosphere, here’s a tip: look for stronger, more descriptive words . . .