More on Writing Historical Fiction

Writing historical fiction - where to start There are two possible starting points for a writing a historical novel: You can start with a character or story idea... then do research to find the perfect historical time period and place to fit it. You can start with an interest in a particular historical time period... then imagine characters that might have been living there or a story that might have taken pla...

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How to Write Historical Fiction

How to write historical fiction - What is historical fiction? Historical fiction is a category for novels and stories that take place in past times (usually more than fifty years before when the author wrote them). ...

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How to Write Romance

How to write romance: what's a romance novel? The broadest definition of a romance novel is simply... a novel focused on a central love story. But the term romance novel is normally used for specific types of commercial fiction....

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How to Write Fantasy

How to write fantasy - what's a fantasy novel? Fantasy is a genre or category of fiction that is about things that are generally considered to be impossible. This includes magic, and magical creatures such as elves, dragons, and unicorns (the tooth fairy is, of course, real). Fantasy is often based on myths, legends, and folklore, and frequently includes elements from the Middle Ages. It tends to be action-packed, including quests or adventures. A conflict between good and evil is a common subject in fantas...

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How to Write Science Fiction

How to write science fiction - what is science fiction? There are lots of definitions of science fiction out there. But basically, science fiction is the end of the equation: reality + what-if = ...? What if there is intelligent life on other planets? What if we could time travel? What if we invented robots that could write bestselle...

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How to Write a Thriller

T his page talks about how to write a thriller. It is just one of many creative lessons on this website with tips for writing a novel or a short story. At the bottom of the page, you'll find links more pages on how to write fiction, plus the chance to take a free creative writing cours...

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How to Write a Mystery

This page offers tips and advice on how to write a mystery. This is just one of many pages on this site about how to write different types of fiction. At the bottom, you'll find links to more creative writing lessons....

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Tips for Writing a Novel: So You've Got an Idea -- What Now?

Taking your idea to the next level Different fiction writers have different approaches for getting started. Here are some of your option...

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Where to Find Creative Writing Ideas

Tips for generating creative writing ideas Keep a journal - Record your observations, things that happen to you and how they feel, stories you hear from your friends, curious events on the news, gossip, memories. Any of these can become the seed of a story, novel, or poem. And you can go back to your journal as you're writing to find the details and descriptions that will make your scenes seem real....

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Essential Elements of a Novel

Elements of a novel: Character Characters are the imaginary people you write about in your fiction or drama. Examples of fictional characters: Harry Potter, Hamlet, Oliver Twist, Cinderella. The main character of your story is called the protagonist....

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Types of Novels and Which One You Should Write

Here you'll find explanations of different types of novels, along with novel writing tips. Curious about how to write romance, science fiction, thrillers, fantasy, historical novels...? Read on! This is just one of many pages on this website about how to write a novel. At the bottom of the page, you'll find links to more pages with creative writing ideas and advic...

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How to Write Poems - Poetry Techniques 3

This is Part 3 of the CWN series on How to Write Poems.  How to write poems - poetry problems you can avoid Here are some common problems that often hurt the poetry of new writers. Of course, there is no law against doing any of these things; you can try to get away with them if you want. But you have a better chance of writing a good poem if you can avoid the...

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Types of Poems

Here you'll find explanations of different types of poems, with poetry ideas and creative writing prompts to try them yourself! At the bottom of the page, you'll find links to read about more poem types and technique...

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Rhyme Schemes

This page is an introduction to rhyme schemes. Do you know the pattern of a limerick, a sonnet? How to write a poem with special sound effects? More below! This is just one of many pages on this website about poetry techniques. At the bottom, you'll find links to more pages about how to write poe...

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Poetry Meter

This page explains what poetry meter is... and why you should care. This is just one of many pages on the CWN website about poetry techniques and how to write poetry. At the bottom of the page, you'll find links to related topics such as poem structure and rhyme scheme...

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Poem Structure - Lines and Stanzas

This page is an introduction to poem structure and poetry techniques. What’s the best way to divide your poetry into lines? (Hint: "at random" is not the right answer!) Learn more below. This is just one of many pages on this website about how to write poetry. At the bottom of the page, you'll find links to related poetry topic...

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How to Write a Poem - Poetry Techniques 2

Poetry techniques - expressing the invisible In Part 1 of this series, I talked about how to choose something to write about, and how to start turning your subject into the poem. The poetry techniques I've recommended all have to do with careful observation of your subject matter. But what if you're not writing about a person, place, animal, plant, or thing, but about a feeling or an abstract concept such as Love or Death? How can you observe and describe something that can't actually be seen or hear...

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How to Write a Poem - Poetry Techniques 1

Here are some tips that can help you write better poetry. How to write a poem - what to write about? The first step in any poem is coming up with something to write about. Don't feel that you have to choose profound or "poetic" material. Anything can be the subject for a poem. Great poems have been written about such topics as a gas station (Elizabeth Bishop,"The Filling Station"), a clothesline full of laundry (Richard Wilbur, "Love Calls Us to the Things of the World"), and pieces of broken glass on the beach ("Amy Clampitt, "Beach Glas...

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A Definition of Poetry

Here, you'll find a definition of poetry based on some of its important characteristics. This is just one of many pages on this website about poetry techniques, types of poetry, and how to write poems. At the bottom of this page, you'll find links to related topic...

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BLC (Building Learning Commitment) 4

BAB I PENDAHULUAN Latar belakang masalah Pegawai Negeri Sipil (PNS) adalah pekerja pada instansi Pemerintah yang terdiri dari berbagai unsur dan jenis sesuai dengan tugas dan fungsinya didalam bekerja akan membutuhkan kerjasama dengan pihak-pihak terkait, atau mereka butuh jaringan/jejaring kerja, yang pada umumnya disebut tim kerja.&nbs...

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BLC (Building Learning Commitment) 3

Tipe Tactile Karakteristik Kecenderungan Sifat Penerimaan Informasi Senang dg sensasi di kulit, Sentuhan,Menggerakkan tangan dan jari, Merasakannya secara fisik dan emosi. (eksperimen, praktek) Sensifitas pd Lingkungan Sensitif pada sensasi fisik, Peduli pada perasaan Orang lain. Paham pada komunikasi non verbal Gerakan Mata Tidak hanya mengamati orang lain dan mimik wajah, tapi menjadi pendengar yang baik. Cara Berbicara Senang berbicara sambil memegang tangan atau sesuatu Memori Sangat bagus dlm penampilan visual link, dan yg nampak dlm grafik. Tipe Visual Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable ...

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BLC (Building Learning Commitment) 2

Mengenal Diri Sendiri dan Orang Lain •         Pada bagian tengah kertas gambarlah suatu gambar yang mencerminkan diri sendiri •         Pada bagian kanan atas, tuliskan perilaku positip dan kiri atas dengan perilaku negatip •         Pada bagian kiri bawah, tuliskan cara belajar yang disukai dan pada kanan bawah cara belajar yang tidak disukai •         Pada bagian tengah bawah tulis hob...

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BLC (Building Learning Commitment) 1

For what ? 1.      Mengenal diri dan mengenal orang lain 2.      dengan lebih baik. 3.      Menjalin komunikasi yang harmonis 4.      Membangun kebersamaan dan rasa percaya diri. 5.      Merumuskan komitmen belaj...

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Gabungan Metode Pengajaran langsung (Direct Method) dengan Permainan dalam Belajar Bahasa Inggris

Bahasa Inggris saat ini telah menjadi Bahasa Internasional. Setiap negara menggunakan bahasa ini sebagai alat untuk berkomunikasi dan menjalin suatu kerjasama antar negara dalam berbagai bidang. Hal tersebut tidak dapat dipungkiri bahwa Bahasa Inggris juga menjadi bahasa yang penting dalam dunia pendidika...

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Metode Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris SD

Globalisasi saat ini telah melanda dunia. Dunia yang luas sudah menjadi seolah-olah sempit. Interaksi antar manusia dalam wujud tertentu sudah tidak dapat dibatasi oleh ruang dan waktu. Interaksi tersebut salah satunya dalam bentuk komunikasi...

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Kind of Prose Fiction and Non-fiction

1.      A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century. The present English (and Spanish) word derives from the Italian novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new". Most European languages have preserved the term "romance" (as in French and German "Roman", and in Portuguese "Romance") for extended narratives.The English and Spanish decisions came with the 17th-century fashion of shorter exemplary histories. a.    ...

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Principles, Theories and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

Second language acquisition has continuity with the first language acquisition. The term second language acquisition is the acquisition of which began at age 3 or 4 years. Second language acquisition is important for each individual to be able to interact properly in its environment. For most children in Indonesia, the Indonesian language is not their first language, but a second language, or third. Introduction / Indonesian mastery can occur through a process of acquisition or the learning process. Acquisition process occurs naturally, unconsciously, through no formal interaction with parents and / or peers, without guidance.  A.    Principle According to Barcroft there are five principles in second language acquisition, including: 1)      Present...

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Introduction to Prose

Definition of Prose Prose is the written equivalent of the spoken language.  It is written in words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs and chapters.  It utilizes punctuation, grammar and vocabulary to develop its message.  According miriam webster The ordinary language people use in speaking or writing b : a literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech A dull or ordinary style, quality, or condition Prose is a kind of writing distinguished from poetry because of variations in rhythm (rhythm), which has larger and more appropriate language with lexical meaning. Prose is the most typical form of written language, applying ordinary grammatical...

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The Consept Of culture

SOME DEFINITIONS Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people. Culture is communication, communication is culture. Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behavior; that is the totality of a person's learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behavior through social learning. A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors,...

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What is Culture?

( Douglas-Brown, 1994) Culture is "Glue" that bends a group of people together". Artinya adalah : Sebuah budaya dengan segenap feature / cirri khasnya memiliki kekeuatan untuk mempersatukan masyarakat, oaring-oarang atau kelompok orang yang ada di dalam sebuah masyarakat tertentu" ( Linda Harklou, 1999 ) "Culture is an elusive / unclear construct that shift constantly over time and according to two is perceiving and interpreting it." Artinya adalah : Budaya adalah sebuah pola yang rumit atau kompleks yang senantiasa berubah sepanjang waktu aecara terus-menerus dan tergantung dengan masyarakat yang menginterpretasikannya" ( Seelve, 1984-1993 ) Culture is a broad concept that embraces all aspects of human life. It includes everything...

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