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Do you really want to be a writer? If so! Stick with us we tell you about Creative Writing Tips that guide you along the way.

1. Get Ready To Be A Writer: First thing to get ready to be a writer, you need to have your writing resource, find a comfort writing place and zone, improved writing habit and reading habit. A real writer does not need too much equipment; you just need to have only pens, pencils, paper or your Macbook, laptop or Tablet. Next, find a place that makes you creative imagination expands. It could be your bedroom or wherever you like. If you like music along the way, just play it!

2. Create Your Writing Styles and Ideas: A good writer reads as much as s/he can. By doing so, it will help you discover your writing style. Writing style is your unique skill; it is how you talk to your readers. Then you need to explore the ideas. Where can you find ideas? Just at everything around you! There are billions of ideas you will find.

3. Create Characters: A creative writer knows how to create characters. Each character must be unique and make readers care about. To create good characters, you can look at your friends, anyone around or animal and nature.

4. Decide Your Story’s Viewpoint: Before you start your story, you need to decide whether you want to tell your readers about everything related to your characters at once or you want to reveal it stage by stage. That’s your call!

5. Get Ready To Write: When you feel you are ready to write, start a few paragraphs. It is a good way to keep your story flow. But do not though it all at once!

Conducting research can be fun, exciting, and frustrating all at the same time. Whether an individual is researching for a school project or for their own self-curiosity, unexpected things can be found which enriches a person’s own learning as well as those that they choose to share their findings with. That being said, it is common that once one question is answered, at least three or four others surface. This is the frustrating part (or the exciting part, depending on how you look at it!). However, never fear. There are many things that one can do while researching to take away some of the headaches that one may encounter.

1) Cite. Keep a record of every resource you look at, regardless if you decide to use it in your essay or a bibliography. Better to be safe than sorry and who knows, you might find further down the road that something you need was actually in some obscure resource you nearly tossed out early on.

2) Use others’ bibliographies. One could spend a lifetime just looking up the other articles that a researcher cites within their own work. Just flip to the back of the article and take a look at their bibliography and search for what applies to your own topic of study.

3) Use databases. Databases are your friends. Most colleges and universities and many high schools subscribe to databases that can be used to look up scholarly peer-reviewed articles. Ask at your library how to access these databases. Learning how to work the databases is beyond the scope of this article, but a general tip is to familiarize yourself with using a Boolean search.