From the Mind of R.M. Almeida

I refuse to allow another week to transpire without publishing something of significance to this blog. I am still editing past blog posts, to ensure that they reflect a degree of professionalism. In the interim, I have decided to share short original written work ranging from 500 to 1500 words that deal with my personal experiences […]

Today’s Creative Series blog post will be available tomorrow. My apologies. A number of errors were discovered in many of the initial blogs. Rather than post submissions with errors, I am correcting all punctuation, grammar and style errors, so that they reflect a more professional site.

There are no perfect words to bestow upon characters that we create.

This part of our Creative Series will cover characters. Characters are a very important part of every good story. Characters are the primary colors of your plot. Without characters, a story can become a lifeless, dull, carcass of a plot which loses the reader’s interest. It is the writer’s job to create interesting characters to […]

Today is the day that we meet our muse. What I will be doing from this point to the end of the series, is creating a storyline and finished product online. For the next few parts in our series, we will literally create a story from this blog, using all of the tools that we have covered.

Welcome to the final leg of our journey as writers, authors, poets, scriptwriters, playwrights and authors. It is time to begin planning what we are going to write.

Dialogue is how we can allow our characters to breathe life into our story. It is important to allow our characters to “own” their part of the printed page. What do I mean by making this statement? What happens when we do not allow the voices and images that we have in our minds and […]

Action is an important part of many stories. Normally, this scene is what many people envision as action. A majority of readers and often new writers, envision action involving war, death or some kind of danger. The description of action does not need to employ such techniques. Action is often used as a kind of […]

Is any story is best told, when the author (or writer) is not telling YOU the story? That choice is up to you, the writer. We are discussing specific techniques: Third person perspective, Second Person perspective and first person perspective.

How does a writer breathe life into their story? People are the spice of life. Modern day storyteller/songwriters like Jim Croce and Harry Chapin were instrumental in exposing us for what we are – stories. They were part of a generation when many stories were told in song. It was a time that harkened back to ancient […]