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Creative writing can be fun and many fiction writers find out the best way to better their writings is to write as much as they can. Creative writing, such as fiction writing or poetry writing is an art. However, there are skills and tools with many different techniques that can be used to develop for writing skills.

To be good at creative writing you need to accept constructive criticism, listen, read many different style of literature and write as much as you can spare the time. To be good at writing requires you to create a specific routine because to be good at writing can very difficult. To be a good fiction writer, you need to be a great story teller. If you are a great story teller you will find many that want to read your work.

www.ipublishabook.com suggest you write about subject you are well verse in. your writings should reflect your experiences in this subject. However, there are some major components that should be included in a good story. Here the seven most important things any good stories should have.

Plot, is the events that take place in the story. A plot usually consists of conflicts. A plot should also continue as the story unfolds. As the story ends a plot usually gets better.

Characters, will be the people or animals that you will include in the story. Characters are usually introduced early in the story. Make sure the character in the story appears with great significance to the reader.

Setting, is the place and time where your story takes place. You have to take your time and describe the setting so your readers can feel and see the place. Set a great a great atmosphere of the story.

Dialogue, is the word the character speaks in the story. A good dialogue can make fiction fun, real and interesting.

Point of view, you can decide first person point of view of the story or a secondary person telling the story or a third person point of view.

Theme, Avery great stories have a theme. Basically this is the main idea or meaning behind a story.

Style, we all have our own style and language. Don’t concentrate too much on the style of writing. Keep focus on the plot of the story.

Whatever rules and regulations you hear about how to write http://www.ipublishabook.com  suggest for you to have fun with your writings. The more you write the better you will get at creative writings, fiction writing or poetry writings. Don’t put too much focus on all these rules. Some of may prevent you from being creative.


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- dragonquestwizard

In ***?rrent ***?mes, merely within ten years the discourse has started in Urdu literature up on the philosophy of Postmodernism and Deconstructionism. Undoubtedly, almost all big critics in Urdu literature are involved in this discourse. At the same ***?me it has attracted a lot of creative writers to follow the theme.

Abrar Mujeeb, a fiction writer from the Industrial City of Jamshedpur [India], has written ****?h stories that represent the Philosophy of Deconstructionism. After 1980, the Urdu fiction has turned towards new colorful dimensions. Some new important names have happened to appear up on the ****?izon of Urdu short stories including NayyarMassod, SyedMohammadAshraf, SaajidRasheed, Ghzanfer, MusharrafAlamZaouqi, PaighamAafaqi, ShamuelAhmed, TariqChatari, SamimAfzaQamar, ***?rhatParveen, Qamar Jahan, ZakiyaMashhadi, KhursheedHayat, MahmoodShahid, AzraNaqvi, Shaheera Msroor, and GhiyasurRahman. Abrar Mujeeb is an important name in the equal list.

In his fictions we found the techniques of deconstructionism which has affected other story writers in Urdu to come closer to this. It is ought to understand that the communication techniques in deconstructionism are different than a narrative style of writing. It communicates through an alternative logic and subject next to the real text. Deconstructionism is not directly related to the subject matter of the story rather than it gives emphasis to the meaning of the text which undergoes in between the lines. So a deconstructionist critic or writer always stresses to communicate through the unwritten lines of his text which exist invisibly in his narration. The philosophy of deconstructionism can not be bounded with the text by any means, rather than it can be limited to the unlimited boundaries of the text beyond the text. The ideas presented beyond the text are suppose to be more genuine, authentic, and ***?ctual. So in order to review or form a creative writing the awareness of its ‘further than text expression’ pays vital role in the whole creative scenario.  

Abrar Mujeeb’s story ‘The scenario of night’ is a wonderful story. The habitual changes of day to day life, the look of life and death, the eternal journey of mankind and the universe, the conflict between evil and devil and the psycho-sociological changes of the human societies are ***?ed-up in a single knot. ***? if the human life and the nature were interdependent to each other to unveil themselves. It is a common concept that the occurrence of an incident depends up on the movement of the earth and this is the concept of the ***?rial ***?me which is defined ***? a subordinating cause of beingness. In this fiction Abrar Mujeeb has stated the idea that the occurrence of an incident not only depends up on the ***?me. The nature and the universe are eventful in ****?h incident to take place. In ‘The scenario of night’ he writes while describing the scene of an evening:

                   “… the redness of the evening is looking blackish ***?r in the ****?izon,                                        though it has not spread out like a spot on the blueness of the

                          sky ***? the spots of clotted blood, spreads up on the floor of a

                          slaughter house.”    

At a ***?cond put he writes: 

                             “…there is a bridge up on the chest of the river. At the moment

                             train has not passed over it and possibly all the scenario is

                             waiting for some important ***?me or moment and are vanished

                             in their own”.  

At the last when the story comes to end, the redness of the ****?izon turns into spreaded spots of frozen clotted blood and “at the same ***?me a train passes through the bridge and the whole picture disappears up on the *****?en of the thick fog, ***?rhaps these pictures were waiting for the same ***?me or moment”. Superficially it is just scenery, ****? virtually it is scenery which looks for some or more happenings or incidents to be added in it. And they all inevitably ***?ll together at one point to become the part of a big happening or a scene. In the eyes of the story writer every thing which is happening or going to be happen is the integral part of this universe. The ***?me and the place are inevitably put together along with the happenings to take place. Thus the conclusion comes from all occurrences that they all are predefined to occur. Though the tale of this story is of less worth ****? the whole treatment is excellent.       

Story “The fragrance of own soil” is written up on the philosophy of regional existentialism. In this story the basic identity of an individual and society has been brought to notice. An individual can not be the strength of a society if not he is ready to love and protect his identity. Consequently, the basic identity is ***? urgent for ****?cess in every ***?pects of life. The is the point where the individual and the society comes to strength. The strength and identity of a society depends upon the strength and identity of its individuals. The life then starts moving smoothly. Abrar Mujeeb also tries to strengthen and protect his soil.

Story “The rain” is simple in its expression ****? deep in its meaning. Story “Thrust” is a show of prohibited creativity. Story “The water way of backside” shows the everlasting continuation of ***?me. Besides this his stories “First task” “On the same turn” “Death” “The story of stories” are his best stories.

Summarizing all, we ***?e that the stories of Abrar Mujeeb are the stories of the communication of deconstructionism and prohibited creativity. More to the point, all these stories represents some or more thoughts and ideas of the philosophy of his age. Individuals, Society, characters, feelings, emotions, affairs and thoughts every thing being all together generates a deep taste of life in his stories. He creates a link between the post-modern ***?nsibility and universality. In the backdrop of his feelings and emotions and through his carefulness he teaches us to live with an extended thought of life. We feel that at the artistic level, through locating his own way Abrar Mujeeb passes through a ***?lf evaluating situation. These evaluations act like determiner and make his stories ****?cessful. Small things and small signs are of worth importance for him. The study of life through the mirror of deconstructionism has come closer to his art. He put his first creative step on the road to the life itself and the ***?cond to the universe.

Abrar Mujeeb is an active and ***?nsitive artist. His stories are decent, loving and alive. He is regarded ***? an important short story writer after 1980. Considering his style of writing and thinking he is regarded ***? a short story writer of high repute among the generation of writers in Urdu after 1980.

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- Dr.Equbal Wajid

Farhat Parveen is a Pakistani expatriate Urdu fiction writer in Saudi Arabia who has written lot of short stories which has won appreciation from big literary critics and contemporary writers of South Asian Countries. Three collections of her short stories “The Frozen” “From the window of Restaurant” and “The rocks of glass” has come face to face to the contemporary trends in modern fiction.

Her fictions are the product of a beautiful, high and pathetic scenario of her creativity. Her creativity takes off with the help of her creative unrest, motivated by her aesthetic tastes and visions. Understanding life, keeping it’s effects on her ownself, condensing the pain of the  mankind in her own pathetic creative canvas, asking for encouragement from life itself and criticizing the same, are the identity of Farhat Parveen which is creating a new era in the history of postmodern Urdu fiction in Middle East and South Asian region. Closeness to the life, understanding it through creativeness, the disorder of human and social values, the new features of the society, human psychology, and the post modern scenario of societies are the axis of Farhat Parveen’s creativity. In her fictions, when she looks up on the social and human bondage, she brings every thing  in to our knowledge which is useful in creating  a healthy society.

Farhat Parveen likes to safeguard the interests of human and social behaviors. Sometimes, she concentrates upon in the dynamics of behavior so exclusively that all human values look confined in the instinct of a single human being. While studying society she goes deeper into her ‘characters’ and while studying her ‘characters’ she goes deeper into the dialectics of society. The subjects of her fiction appears as a new infra-structure of the new human and social values. Travelling from individual to individual, individual to society and from society to individuals she emerges as a captain of social and human values. The main subject of her fiction is the HUMAN BEING. She has used her fictions as modern tools for psychotherapy. Through supportive psychotherapy she creates aspirations, trust and faith up on life.

Farhat Parveen is a writer of sadness. In her fiction, sadness, it’s different shades, sadness emerging from love and sadness at the end of pleasures has fogged up her fictions. The picture of this sadness is the only reference of her creative highness. When Farhat Parveen stares up on life she experiences little pleasure and bigger sorrow all through the life. Perhaps this is the real face of this life as some one has said : ‘The life is a long sentence of pain punctuated with happiness’. This is the most accurate discovery of life. This pathetic code of life has emerged as a usual course in all of her fictions. Like Rajendra Sing Bedi [A stalwart from South Asian Fiction(Urdu)] tragedy is her specialty. The difference in the fictions of Rajendara Singh Bedi is that it is buildup with sex with tragedies, but in the fiction of Farhat Parveen, lack of love, poverty and its belongings, the pain of human bondage have become her identity. ‘The frozen’ ‘Junk Yard’ ‘Performer’ ‘Free prisoner’ and ‘Tales’ are her master pieces. I regard these fictions meet the standard of world literature.  

In the fiction ‘The frozen’ we sense a sadness which comes out from confession,  repeating itself as many times as it can. We also sense a kind of ‘self evaluation’ and process of ‘returning towards ourselves’. From the beginning to its end the canvas of this story get deepen in the ocean of intuition and high morality.

‘Junk Yard’ and “Performer’ are the best fictions of their kind. These stories are valuable editions in the history of post-modern South Asian Literature. ‘Junk Yard’ is a tragedy of the materialistic western social orders as well as a healthy criticism of the society. It is a heart beating story. ‘Performer’ is an amazing story. In accordance with it’s subject and the highness of it’s style this story can be placed at the highest level of world literature. In this story the happenings, situations and the characters came together with truth in their natural style. The story belongs to a poor woman who is suffering form unusual troubles. Her troubles were  successfully brought to notice by the story writer.

Apart from this her fiction ‘from the window of the restaurant’  is a living scenario of our life. ‘Amber’ turns out  as a sign of deep beloving. The ‘Free prisoner’ is a narrative-symbolic fiction which stands for the eternal human dissatisfaction of living-hood, supposed to be the fate of all human being, specially to the women. The fiction ‘Conflict’ speaks about a prolonged disguised dissatisfaction of a woman, who was misunderstood by all, even by her siblings. Her mystery remains alive even after her death. ‘Curved brick’ refers to the freedom in selection of life partners. Farhat Parveen advocates the right to choose a life partner by own choice. The fiction ‘Death of love’ tells us the fact that love some times dies without cause.

The creative highness of Farhat Parveen is new of it’ own. She acts like a linking person between the art and nature. She has tried to link the tragedies of our life with nature. The fictions of Farhat Parveen give chance to its readers to rearrange themselves time to time. We can say them applied fictions, as every character of her story draws readers towards their own sentiments. Through this approach the readers experience some sorts of aesthetical power, courage, guts, and contentment in their own. With this aesthetical power the life becomes capable of defending itselves.

In Farhat Parveen’s fictions, mortals and immortal, sorrow and joy, love and hate all move adjoining eacher other. She brings some sort of truth from her experession which explores some new dimensions form the mystry of life. In her fiction, death is a common phenomena. When she tells about her character she includes death as an end to all his aspirations. As a result , in all of her fictions, readers are always alert to listen the death news of some of her characters. The death news symbolizes all her fictions to be the real pictures of life. With out death nothing can be understood or be taken seriously as it is the destroyer of pleasures. The death is the other side of the life. So this approach appears as a significant quality of Farhat Parveen’s fictions. The philosophy of death appears as a teacher of ethics in her works. Death is the teacher which forces life to bow down before the unseen power.

Analyzing the fiction works of Farhat Parveen I am of the openion that she is a true writer who has her own approach in fiction writing. She has started writing fiction after 90s and soon she has become a known figure in the history of South Asian fictions[urdu]. She has a post-modern approach in all her writings, she gives a real touch of truthfullness to her fictions. Her fictions are not meant to see the life on its surface but to plunge into its depth and draw some new dimensions in undrstanding the human universe.  Moreover, she has a natural aptitude of writing. She has used narratives style of telling stories and has drawn pictures form the surroundings which are hidden from our eyes. She has escaped from vagueness and ambiguity in her writings. Her fictions are as clear as the picture of life itself. By her continuing creative efforts in writings fictions, she has become an established fiction writer of her age. We are expecting some more masterpieces from her which may draw attention of the big writers and critics in the world and can place her at the higher rank in the history of South Asian literature[urdu].                                           ************       


- Dr.Equbal Wajid

I am a fiction writer and my ususal research sources have failed me on this occasion. I’m just looking for a ballpark estimate from New Orleans to Venice with maybe one refueling stop if necessary.
- Kristel

I am a fiction writer (think of a cross between Harry Potter and Sonic the Hedgehog) and Ive been wondering…are there any positions in the Military which use my writing ability to its fullest? or is the Military only guns and fighting? are there any secretarial jobs in the military?
- Tristina

I’ve heard a lot of people taking those courses and they end up in dead-end jobs unrelated to creative writing. It seems useless to me. The great writers of the past never took those courses, but they wrote masterpieces. What’s in those courses anyway? Can creative writing even be taught??
- Mike

November hosts the end of Daylight Savings Time, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving, but if youre a fiction writer this month hosts an even more important and exciting event. November marks the annual start of National Novel Writing Month, affectionately called NaNoWriMo. I am proud to say that in 2005, I was one of many winners of this 30-day contest. Winning simply requires that you turn in (and have counted) a 50,000-word (175-page) novel by midnight on November 30. The novel doesn’t have to be any good. In fact, the contest is all about quantity not quality, the idea being that you should shut your inner critic away in a closet in your mind for 30 days and simply write something — anything. The goal simply revolves around starting and to finishing a novel.

I bet you are wondering what happened to that novel of mine, right? Well, I pitched it to several agents at the San Francisco Writers Conference in 2005 and had them all interested, but they all turned it down. I even won the fiction pitch contest with my 25-word description of the book, and my prize lunch with two agents later landed me literary representation  but not for my fiction! I was told by to leave my fiction writing behind and focus on what I do best — non-fiction. (I took the agents advice.)

Which brings me to the point of this essay: For those of us who don’t write fiction (ever or anymore…), what are we supposed to do during the month of November? I say, “WE WRITE NON-FICTION!” I challenge you to join me in starting and finishing a work of non-fiction during the next 30 days. You can write an article, a booklet, a newsletter, or a book. Just write something. Whatever non-fiction writing project you’ve been putting off, get started now. No one will be looking over your shoulder. This is not a contest, and there’s no prize at the end other than the great feeling you will get from knowing you wrote every day and completed your “assignment.” No on is counting your words, nor does anyone care how many words you write (not even me). This is simply a challenge to write — and to not write alone. I’ll be writing every day, too, and hopefully some other people will be writing as well.

Plus, I invite everyone who is writing non-fiction during November and wants to share their experience to go to my new nonfiction writing blog (see link below) and post comments. Ill be writing every few days about nonfiction writing in general  why I enjoy it, tips on getting published, how my writing is going, etc.

One of my first blog entries explained how my foray into fiction writing during the 2005 NaNoWriMo event actually renewed my love of nonfiction writing. While I loved the fun of writing fiction, which happened to be my childhood dream, getting away from nonfiction briefly gave me a new perspective on nonfiction and reminded me of what I enjoy about it so much.

I love nonfiction writing, because it allows me to explore subjects that are interesting to me and to then share them with others. As a magazine journalist and as a book author who likes to wrestle with issues in my life or subjects that excite me, I get to spend my days researching those very same issues and subjects, speaking to experts about them, finding answers and solutions to them, and coming up with ideas and theories related to them. Then, I get to craft what Ive learned into a story  an article, essay or book — that offers what Ive learned and discovered  and possibly even put to use successfully in my life  into a form that others can read. This then hopefully helps or excites them. I find this both stimulating and rewarding.

Nonfiction writing also proves useful to many people for many reasons. If you need to let people know about who you are and what you do, writing articles and books serves as a great way to promote yourself. Plus, once your articles appear in major magazines or trade journals or your book is selling at the back of the room when you speak or on Amazon.com or in bookstores, you achieve expert status.

So, November is here, and no matter why you want or need to write nonfiction, its time to start writing. Dont worry about how good your writing is, just write. Thats the point of NaNoWriMo  to put your inner critic or inner editor in the closet while you write (or so you can write). Use the same principle for writing nonfiction in November. Dont worry about the quality of what you are writing now; simply write and strive to meet the goal of finishing what you start. Editing happens later  after youve finished writing. In memory of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (and some really great fiction writing), imagine yourself as Scarlett OHara and think about editing later. You can do that in December. November is all about writing.


- Nina Amir

I want to pursue a major in creative writing, and eventually become a fiction writer, but my question is, besides teaching english (which I NEVER picture myself doing), what is there for someone with a creative writing degree to do before they have written any books. My mom says a degree in creative writing is like signing up to work at Starbuck’s until i get published, is this the case?
- CakeorDeath

I would like to pursue a graduate degree in Creative Writing but am wondering what your opinion is as far as it’s marketable value. I would be doing it partially for my own benefit as well, but I’d like to know if any of you view a Master’s degree as a good career move for an aspiring creative non-fiction writer.
- BlueLuvr82