by Zahid Hussain | Jun 28, 2008 | Creative Writing
One of the biggest challenges any writer faces is determining which “voice” is apt to tell his or her tale. Now, when I talk about “voice” I’m not referring to “Point of View”, that is, whether a story is told through a first...
by Zahid Hussain | Jan 23, 2008 | Creative Writing
I’m going to reveal a big secret, perhaps the biggest of all. It’s as sharp and tingly as a slap in the face, it’s simply this:Writing is not writing.”Eh?” You gasp, “Zahid’s lost it this time. He’s joined the Circus of...
by Zahid Hussain | Jan 15, 2008 | Creative Writing
Before the advent of the typewriter and way before the PC, writers wrote with pens and pencils and everything was simple. Now you there is a plethora of software and geeky devices to help catalyse the writing process. So much easier you’d think and yet oddly so...
by Zahid Hussain | Dec 29, 2007 | Creative Writing
Crafting a story is dependent on many variables. One of the most important is the narrator’s “voice”. Theorists sometimes refer to “viewpoint”, but that’s not what I mean here. The same narrator can have different viewpoints....