For adding power to your words, creative writing skills are important for a blogger. The most difficult thing is that champion this skill for an aspiring blogger like me.

I’ve started food blogging 4 years back out of my passion to cook food. The attempt was not so serious and regular. Later I’ve come across a blogging challenge MyfriendAlexa via Blogchatter.

I got myself registered and participate with zero knowledge about blogging. During that challenge, I realized that I should be blogging about more topics apart from food.

My English was very bad at starting and my posts are not in synchronization. But slowly all my thoughts get aligned and improve my writing a lot. Though still there are many faults in my English and I want to improve my creative writing skills.

Importance of Creative Writing in Non-fiction blogging

This year I got the good news that Blogchatter is conducting Creative Writing e-course for free. I got myself enrolled at this fabulous opportunity. In the first week, We got to learn about Non-fiction writing skills via Aditya Sinha.

He shared insights that will help to strengthen our non-fiction writing. Some of the tips I’ve learned are:

1. Facts are Important-The The facts should intact and not get distorted during its presentation.
2. Influence of Fake news- Satire writing is not so normal nowadays due to the influence of fake news.
3. Faction Writing- Writers will get creative freedom by doing faction which blends of fact and fiction.
4. Importance of Sources and resources- It should always be shared that facts are derived via narrative, which increases their authenticity. A writer can make it interesting for readers using creative skills.
5. The best writing is simply written- The facts should be written easy to read, simple sentences. Aditya recommends to read “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and learn from writing style.
6. The structure of a nonfiction book: It’s ideally chronological order with the reason behind the nonfiction intact. At the same time, it should be readable and accessible so that a reader doesn’t lose interests.
7. Purpose of writing nonfiction: A reader should get to learn something new which is the truth.

Importance of self-editing and need of Beta reading by Samarpita

Samarpita is a freelance editor. According to her, beta reading plays a key role and these tips will choose the right beta reader for a book.

1. Don’t go for beat reading by family and friends will not give an impartial review.
2. Go for professional, or friends who are authors, editors and have knowledge about editing.
3. Basic editing can be done on one’s own, like spellings, capitalization, and other grammatical errors.
4. Before proceeding professional editing one should do basic editing on own. This will give the editor enough window to go for plot building, character development, etc.
5. Discussion with the editor is very important. This gives you an idea about the editor credibility.

The art of writing and telling stories by Dipankar Mukherjee

In his Instagram session, Dipankar considers creative writing as a medium of entertainment and it varies from person to person. It consists of 4 elements, plot, characters, settings, and narration. A writer should take care of these elements than a writer will be able to deliver well.

A writer should do enough research before writing. This experience will come through talking and reading about the subject. If you focused more on plot than chances are that you will develop the far more natural and commercial friendly book.

In 8 point method, the perspective of plot structure a writer should build it independently. One should always keep in mind about the conflict of the character. It’s the basis of a character and link to real life.

Let the character dream and grow with the story. And it’s very important to give life non-living objects.

Chitra Divakaruni on building memorable characters

According to Chitra, she always likes to discover her character and let them grow naturally. I believe that the right voice for a character’s dialogue develops according to the personality of a character. And yes of course while creating characters with different genres one need to do research before development.

Importance of rewriting your manuscript by Kanchana Banerjee

According to her, manuscript rejections by publishers bring negativity and it happens with everyone. It does feel personal, but one should need to understand that it’s your manuscript is rejected and not you. And here one needs to rewrite the manuscript with a new perspective.

The rewriting grab the attention of the publisher. For rewriting, one should read the manuscript. The plot whisperer by Martha Alderson can be for good assistance for rewriting. To make a fair and critical assessment of your book this book help via small activities. This gives steps to fix the plot. Plotting and structure play an important role in making a story. Reading the bestsellers in the respective genre also helps a lot.

Marketing book on social media by Kiran Manral

According to her, one should start building and connecting with people on social media before pitching the book on social media.

For her character building comes first and the plot comes later. It varies from author to author. Non-Fiction is easier to sell and writer. Fiction is difficult to sell.

For marketing, it’s important to do publicity of book and one should not shy away.

How Blogchatter Creative Writing e-course will help us?

1. Creative Writing e-course will be of 3 months duration.
2. Participants will get exclusive sessions by mentors who will help us in writing, editing, and marketing.
3. We have to collect all the knowledge and makes our notes.
4. We will get evaluated at the end of the course.

What do I want to achieve from Blogchatter Creative Writing e-course?

I want to learn helpful tips from this course that will strengthen my blog work. I want to create interesting content that will be loved by my readers and want to implement the tips on my E-books also.