Suite 101 writers come from a variety of backgrounds and offer different slants on a multitude of writing topics.
As I browse through the Writing Fiction pages of Suite 101, as well as through the other writing sections, I am amazed at the diversity and wealth of knowledge there is spread between all the different writers. Some of us write children’s or fantasy or mystery, some write literary short stories, some have a series of novels published. We have agents and editors within our numbers. Together, we can provide more help for aspiring writers than a single person writing all the content.
Katherine Swarts has written a great article, “Naming Your Story,” which made me think about titles in a way I haven’t before. I wrote “Creating Characters that Live” about writing character sketch scenes to get to know your characters, while Karen Lotter uses imaginary interviews. There are numerous articles about settings, plot and dialogue, but they are all from different angles and will provide different nuggets of truth for you.
Over in Resources for Writers, you’ll find help with organization, time management, marketing, and career goals. Grammar and publishing articles can be found there as well as in Editing and Publishing.
As Suite 101 writers, we generate article ideas from what we have experience in, what’s on our minds at any given time, and what we’ve researched as journalists. But both novice and experienced fiction writers know that there are more topics to discuss than there is time to do it. So if you have a question that hasn’t been addressed in an article yet, ask it on the discussion boards - you’d be surprised at how many people have the same question! (To start a discussion, scroll down the Discussions page and click on the "Start a New Discussion" link.)
Happy Writing!
