Up on That Hill A poem by Viktor Karmazin for Story Done Writers

In the last part I was talking about mood. Let me pick up where I left off, which is: Setting. You there, guy in the Red shirt! What's your setting? "Well it...

Have you ever asked yourself, what sets one scene apart from another in your fiction? Naturally, aside from different plot driven events or descriptions wher...

So you have a scene that’s in place, you have dialogue that doesn’t make you grimace in disgust. You have some action that drives the plot forward. Now you m...

So you’re watching out for the pitfalls specific to your style. What about universal ones, I hear you ask? Oh boy… now that’s a whooole other ball ache. Stru...

So you had a great idea. You brainstormed some stuff on paper, found those profound thoughts you wrote down in a weed fueled haze, see a bunch of funny peopl...

A very short story about dating He was waiting for her on the London Bridge looking handsome, just as she remembered from the conference they met. Klara didn...

By Paula Panikova My strength and the base of my humor was purely the ability to state the obvious. Usually nothing is funnier than the thing that is happeni...

By Katarina Karmazinova & Viktor Karmazin Writing fiction is lying. Let’s be honest about that. Specifically, fiction is a series of lies that, when arranged...

By Katarina Karmazinova & Viktor Karmazin Think of a character you cannot forget. What makes them so bloody appealing? I am sure you have one in mind. Take a...

By Matthew Lee Hanson Finding any reason for a disappearance can be truly horrifying in it's results. Evidence can be collected, dissected, studied and torn ...

By George Kolena Mon Cheri, As I am sitting on the porch of my 0.5-star hotel in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, dodging bird shit landing occasionally through...

I know the rules of the traveler’s game. Don’t change your travel plans for other people, don’t change the course of your life, and don’t lose your personal ...

Tom Kuegler, a travel blogger, who writes for Huffington Post, managed to get enough big audience to be able to make a living off the back of his articles. H...

You came to me - like the Sun - at dawn and in tattered rags. Someone found you, washed up on the beach that morning, as they were leaving the Storm Watch on...

Why does this format need justification? A short story could be like a basement of a villa, a supporting act before the headliner of a novel. We have fewer w...

1. It is not on your mind every day. Only every other day. You can live with that! 2. You doubt people would like your work. And come on, there are writers l...

If it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your g...

Why are you here, reading this? Are you not supposed to be writing? Yes, you are, but there might be a ton of reasons why you haven’t started yet, or why you...