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Creative writers and journalists sometimes have the problem of smoothly transitioning from one paragraph to the other, especially when they are changing the subject. You can master this with little effort. This article will teach you the tricks.

So when we hop from topic to topic w/o a transition sentence, we “jar” the reader. While sentence transitions can be in the last line of a paragraph, it is more common to put it in the first line of the following paragraph. Think of it as a bridge that connects one thought to another.

Warted characters are memorable. The reader will remember the characters that have warts.

Huh? What happened to the discussion on transition sentences? Were you puzzling over that? A “jarred reader” feels the same way. Warts… Continue reading Creative Writer's Transition Sentences

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Creative Writers – do you know how to use inference? Learn everything you don’t know about it here!

Creative Writers Use Inference to Say More by Saying Less

All creative writers use inference, whether by choice or by accident. So you may be thinking, “If I can do use it by accident, why should I study it? You need to study it until you are able to use inference at will.

This is inference:

Mary was in labor. The baby was a monkey.

All writers use inference, so learn to use it by choice. On the surface, one could assume the following:

1. A woman had mated with a monkey and got pregnant
2. She went to the hospital to give birth
3. Her baby wasn’t a child, it was

Medical writing is a special subset of technical writing that requires familiarity with medical and pharmaceutical terminology. It is an excellent niche for those writers with a scientific background.

And within the medical writing subset, regulatory writing is another specialty that pays very well since your employers are usually pharmaceutical companies that rarely have any cash problems.

To create the appropriate documentation in order to obtain regulatory agency approval for a new drug is the chief responsibility of a regulatory writer. To market and distribute a prescription drug one needs to have the regulatory stamp of approval of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

There are several types of specialized documents that you’d be asked to write as a regulatory writer. Here are the two most… Continue reading A Medical Writing Specialty that Can Put a Lot of Money in Your Pocket - Regulatory Writing

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Three D characters are three-part beings. Just what does that mean? It means they will be like real humans, with twitches, procrastination, appointments, problems, a past, present, and future. Are they mentally handicapped? Will their mental state destroy their lives and that of others? This is what it takes to make believable characters.

Supporting roles can be 2-D. Their role will be a supporting one and the reader doesn’t need to know every detail about them. However, you need to mentally connect with them as well as you do your 3-D characters.

Do the following exercise just twice (3-D characters only), and that’s all it will take. From then on, it will be automatic impulse. Each story will have a good force (protagonist) vs. an opposing force (antagonist)… Continue reading Character Developing Secrets

Many people would consider writing as a tedious task. Well, if you want to ask for an opinion, any endeavor is difficult if you don’t have the heart for it. And speaking about heart, writing romance novels can be fun and entertaining. You might not be aware of it, the truth is, there are still a lot of people who would love to pick up a romance novel and read it. It’s hard to comprehend these days that a person will actually try to read something like romance novel today as everybody is living in the computer and Internet age. But surprisingly, many will read any novel the traditional way and 80% of the novels every published all over the world are made up of romance novels. So, what has… Continue reading A Romance Writing Course To Help You Learn To Write Love Stories