by Jeanette Taylor | Feb 18, 2015 | Writing Tips
A Writing Prompt Using a Photograph as Inspiration Photographs capture the surface details we need to draw readers into our created realities, whether it be fiction or nonfiction. And the subjects they contain can raise questions about relationship dynamics and...
by Jeanette Taylor | Feb 10, 2015 | Writing Tips
Writing Choices, Expectations, Conventions & Perils. What is your Genre? Novel The author creates a fictional world through imagination, creativity, design AND reality. Researches for accuracy, authenticity and believability. Must examine yourself and your...
by Jeanette Taylor | Jan 26, 2015 | BC History Tales, Writing Tips
Photographs as a Research Source for Historical Writing Photographs can be an inspiration can be rich with details, but we tend to pass them over as a superficial source that give no more than a vague sense of a time or place. Take a closer look. Photographs can be...
by Jeanette Taylor | Jan 15, 2015 | Writing Tips
What to Include in the Opening Scene of your Memoir, Family History, Biography or Fiction This is a continuation of several posts on this subject. Somewhere in the first page or two you’ll want to include a scene. This is where the reader gets dropped into the action...
by Jeanette Taylor | Dec 28, 2014 | Writing Tips
What to Include in the Start of a Narrative Here are some random thoughts about what to consider when getting set to write the opening chapter of your nonfiction narrative. For some tips on the pre-writing stage, leading up to writing that all-important opener, see...
