A writer�??s desire to put words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into stories is by no means a mechanical process. It is a force to be reckoned with. You can�??t create it, if it isn�??t in you and you can�??t get rid of it, if you�??ve got the bug to write. But turning our vivid thoughts and imagination into solid form can be both challenging and inspiring. The style that you use will depend on whether you have chosen to write a fiction or non-fiction work.

 

Before you even start writing your book, it is wise to do some research. Do you know if the topic you have in mind is hot right now? Are there similar books on the market and are they selling well? A good way to find out is by reading newspapers, magazines, newsletter and ezines that cater to writers. Join writer�??s groups and forums, as well talk to other people in the writing and publishing field. It is wise to be sure you have a potential audience for your book ahead of time.

 

FICTION WRITING

Fiction writing is base on imagination and if you have a good one, your story will be good. It can also be plot-driven, or based on an idea or concept. The thing to remember as we go through each aspect of fiction writing is that although your story is fantasy, it must still make sense.

 

The next thing to consider is the physical setting of your story. It must be authentic enough to be believed and include everything from scenery, to atmosphere and perhaps even weather. These elements might have a profound affect on the actions or moods of your characters.

 

For instance, does your story take place in a run down factory, a dance hall or spaceship? All of these evoke extremely different images. Then you need to ask yourself, do I want my setting to be simply a background or something more powerful?

 

Choosing the right �??point of view�?? and �??narrative voice�?? for your story is also very important. Writing in the first person, gives the reader the impression that you are personally invested in your story. A third person �??point of view�?? is more detached.

 

Time is another element that must be established. First of all, what time of day is it? Although you don�??t need to specifically state that it�??s 2 p.m., your story must indicate through other details that it is mid-afternoon. Different time periods immediately create pictures in the minds of readers. For instance, there is a world of difference between Washington in 2006 and Boston in the 1800s.

 

Next, the characters in your story must be considered. Are they the primary focus, rather than the plot? Who is the main character and how will you write your book to show that this person is the most important? A good way to answer these questions is to write down character outlines. Describe not only how they look, but also their character traits (strengths and weaknesses), personality, views and moods.

 

Your main character will be the one who is most affected in the story and/or plays the biggest role. He or she will be the one with the most force of action, the biggest problem, the most painful hurt or seeking to accomplish the most tantamount goal. This is the character that you want your readers to know best, to perhaps identify with and to care about. Then unless you are placing yourself in the story, decide which character will tell the tale. This is the �??viewpoint character�?? and the reader will experience the story through this character�??s eyes. It is also possible to have more than one �??viewpoint character.�??

 

Next, consider the plot or story line. How will you let the plot unfold in a natural way and follow it through to the end? Where and at what point will the climax occur? Will there by semi-climaxes as the story moves along and at what points? If you are writing a plot-based story, the intricacies of the plot will be what create the most interesting tale. This, of course, will take some planning. In this case, it helps to write out your game plan ahead of time.

 

Dialogue is a vital aspect of any written work, as it can really bring out the personalities of your characters. It can also serve to fill in necessary information, without just stating it, it can be used to establish the time and place, and also to develop conflicts between characters. Whatever its purpose, writing dialogue is something that can be difficult to create, if you haven�??t done it before. Don�??t try to recreate actual conversations, as they�??ll likely be very boring and annoying. For instance, most people repeat certain phrases and non-words like �??um,�?? �??aha�?? or �??you see.�??

 

I�??m sure you�??ve heard the term �??double speak�?� at some point. In dialogue, it means that what your characters say and what they really mean are two different things. What are your characters saying �??between the lines�?� or �??subtext?�?� This can happen when one or more of your characters don�??t really understand themselves or their own motivation. Showing a different side to a character through dialogue will tell the reader more about him or her than if you just outright said it. Knowing how to write this kind of dialogue can set you apart from other writers.

 

Also if your character has a slang or accent, don�??t overdo it. Dialogue should also flow, without a lot of �??he said,�?? �??she said.�?? Also try to intersperse your conversations with associated actions. Finally, always remember to begin a new sentence each time another person speaks and put their words in quotations.

 

NON-FICTION WRITING

 

Non-fiction writing is based on reality, but is not necessarily factual. This genre includes recreations of true stories, biographies and autobiographies found in such things as books, magazines, newspapers, advertisements and reference books. You might also want to write a how-to book. There are many of them out there on everything from how to loose weight, dance, find the right mate and build a birdhouse, how to improve your golf game, learn to dance, read sheet music or improve your Internet marketing skills, start a business and even how to write.

 

Non-fiction also includes medical, travel, space books and whole host of other texts. Obviously, the most important aspect of non-fiction writing is to write about what you know best. You must do your homework and become an authority on your subject matter.

 

You must also have an angle or purpose. Why are you writing it? In answering that question, you must answer the questions: who, what, why, when and how. For instance, if you are writing on how to balance your budget, your purpose is to help people gain control over their finances. You must decide whether you are aiming at the poor, middle class or wealthy. What do they need to know and why? When should they begin their financial planning and how?

 

For general non-fiction writing, you must decide on the right �??point of view�?? and �??narrative voice.�?? For instance, if you are writing about a personal and painful experience of your own, you might want to present it in the first person. However, if you are not ready to tell the world it was �??your�?? experience, you will need to write it in the third person. If you�??re writing an academic book, you might want to write in the third person in a �??professor�??s�?? voice. If it is a book about a conspiracy, you might want to adopt a �??suspicious�?? tone.

 

Next, choose your setting, which for non-fiction writing should be an actual place. If this is not possible, you will need to recreate the setting as closely as possible. Then establish the time element and your character outlines. Again, these must be factual or as close to it as possible. You must then decide on your characters and who is the primary character. What is the plot and how important is it? Will there be actual dialogue in your non-fiction book? If so, make sure that all words, expressions and accents are authentic in relation to the time element. What genre does your book fall into and are you being true to form for that genre?

 

Finally, although your non-fiction book should be based on facts, you can be just as creative as a fiction writer to keep your writing from being too dry and boring. Don�??t be afraid to spice it up a bit, but at the same time stick to the facts.

 

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Assuming that you know what genre or category your writing falls into, there are a few things to consider. You must be aware that there are certain conventions of structure, character and conversation that automatically come with specific genres. For instance, writers of science fiction often use the term �??faster-than-light travel�?� or �??warp speed.�?� The sci-fi writer needs to know how and where such terms are used, if he or she intends to use them. In mystery writing, the plot generally begins with a discovery, such as a dead body and ends when the mystery is solved. A great way to become familiar with the conventions of your particular genre is to read similar books by other writers.

 

There is much a beginning author needs to know about manuscript style, dealing with writer�??s block, tricks to unleash the imagination, writing query letters and book proposals, using photos, the importance of editing and book covers, how to find a publisher and/or book agent, copyright, why you should get a literary critique, book contracts, marketing, advertising and so much more.

Farhat Parveen is a Pakistani expatriate Urdu fiction writer in Saudi Arabia who has written lot of short stories which has won appreciation from big literary critics and contemporary writers of South Asian Countries. Three collections of her short stories “The Frozen” “From the window of Restaurant” and “The rocks of glass” has come face to face to the contemporary trends in modern fiction.

Her fictions are the product of a beautiful, high and pathetic scenario of her creativity. Her creativity takes off with the help of her creative unrest, motivated by her aesthetic tastes and visions. Understanding life, keeping it’s effects on her ownself, condensing the pain of the  mankind in her own pathetic creative canvas, asking for encouragement from life itself and criticizing the same, are the identity of Farhat Parveen which is creating a new era in the history of postmodern Urdu fiction in Middle East and South Asian region. Closeness to the life, understanding it through creativeness, the disorder of human and social values, the new features of the society, human psychology, and the post modern scenario of societies are the axis of Farhat Parveen’s creativity. In her fictions, when she looks up on the social and human bondage, she brings every thing  in to our knowledge which is useful in creating  a healthy society.

Farhat Parveen likes to safeguard the interests of human and social behaviors. Sometimes, she concentrates upon in the dynamics of behavior so exclusively that all human values look confined in the instinct of a single human being. While studying society she goes deeper into her ‘characters’ and while studying her ‘characters’ she goes deeper into the dialectics of society. The subjects of her fiction appears as a new infra-structure of the new human and social values. Travelling from individual to individual, individual to society and from society to individuals she emerges as a captain of social and human values. The main subject of her fiction is the HUMAN BEING. She has used her fictions as modern tools for psychotherapy. Through supportive psychotherapy she creates aspirations, trust and faith up on life.

Farhat Parveen is a writer of sadness. In her fiction, sadness, it’s different shades, sadness emerging from love and sadness at the end of pleasures has fogged up her fictions. The picture of this sadness is the only reference of her creative highness. When Farhat Parveen stares up on life she experiences little pleasure and bigger sorrow all through the life. Perhaps this is the real face of this life as some one has said : ‘The life is a long sentence of pain punctuated with happiness’. This is the most accurate discovery of life. This pathetic code of life has emerged as a usual course in all of her fictions. Like Rajendra Sing Bedi [A stalwart from South Asian Fiction(Urdu)] tragedy is her specialty. The difference in the fictions of Rajendara Singh Bedi is that it is buildup with sex with tragedies, but in the fiction of Farhat Parveen, lack of love, poverty and its belongings, the pain of human bondage have become her identity. ‘The frozen’ ‘Junk Yard’ ‘Performer’ ‘Free prisoner’ and ‘Tales’ are her master pieces. I regard these fictions meet the standard of world literature.  

In the fiction ‘The frozen’ we sense a sadness which comes out from confession,  repeating itself as many times as it can. We also sense a kind of ‘self evaluation’ and process of ‘returning towards ourselves’. From the beginning to its end the canvas of this story get deepen in the ocean of intuition and high morality.

‘Junk Yard’ and “Performer’ are the best fictions of their kind. These stories are valuable editions in the history of post-modern South Asian Literature. ‘Junk Yard’ is a tragedy of the materialistic western social orders as well as a healthy criticism of the society. It is a heart beating story. ‘Performer’ is an amazing story. In accordance with it’s subject and the highness of it’s style this story can be placed at the highest level of world literature. In this story the happenings, situations and the characters came together with truth in their natural style. The story belongs to a poor woman who is suffering form unusual troubles. Her troubles were  successfully brought to notice by the story writer.

Apart from this her fiction ‘from the window of the restaurant’  is a living scenario of our life. ‘Amber’ turns out  as a sign of deep beloving. The ‘Free prisoner’ is a narrative-symbolic fiction which stands for the eternal human dissatisfaction of living-hood, supposed to be the fate of all human being, specially to the women. The fiction ‘Conflict’ speaks about a prolonged disguised dissatisfaction of a woman, who was misunderstood by all, even by her siblings. Her mystery remains alive even after her death. ‘Curved brick’ refers to the freedom in selection of life partners. Farhat Parveen advocates the right to choose a life partner by own choice. The fiction ‘Death of love’ tells us the fact that love some times dies without cause.

The creative highness of Farhat Parveen is new of it’ own. She acts like a linking person between the art and nature. She has tried to link the tragedies of our life with nature. The fictions of Farhat Parveen give chance to its readers to rearrange themselves time to time. We can say them applied fictions, as every character of her story draws readers towards their own sentiments. Through this approach the readers experience some sorts of aesthetical power, courage, guts, and contentment in their own. With this aesthetical power the life becomes capable of defending itselves.

In Farhat Parveen’s fictions, mortals and immortal, sorrow and joy, love and hate all move adjoining eacher other. She brings some sort of truth from her experession which explores some new dimensions form the mystry of life. In her fiction, death is a common phenomena. When she tells about her character she includes death as an end to all his aspirations. As a result , in all of her fictions, readers are always alert to listen the death news of some of her characters. The death news symbolizes all her fictions to be the real pictures of life. With out death nothing can be understood or be taken seriously as it is the destroyer of pleasures. The death is the other side of the life. So this approach appears as a significant quality of Farhat Parveen’s fictions. The philosophy of death appears as a teacher of ethics in her works. Death is the teacher which forces life to bow down before the unseen power.

Analyzing the fiction works of Farhat Parveen I am of the openion that she is a true writer who has her own approach in fiction writing. She has started writing fiction after 90s and soon she has become a known figure in the history of South Asian fictions[urdu]. She has a post-modern approach in all her writings, she gives a real touch of truthfullness to her fictions. Her fictions are not meant to see the life on its surface but to plunge into its depth and draw some new dimensions in undrstanding the human universe.  Moreover, she has a natural aptitude of writing. She has used narratives style of telling stories and has drawn pictures form the surroundings which are hidden from our eyes. She has escaped from vagueness and ambiguity in her writings. Her fictions are as clear as the picture of life itself. By her continuing creative efforts in writings fictions, she has become an established fiction writer of her age. We are expecting some more masterpieces from her which may draw attention of the big writers and critics in the world and can place her at the higher rank in the history of South Asian literature[urdu].                                           ************       

Romance fiction is mainly defined as the imaginary story of love between people. This imagination is put down in writing to form a romance novel or romance literary work. Romance fiction is one of the oldest genres and definitely one of the most distinguished. People who are responsible for creating this kind of fiction are called romantic authors. It is pretty amazing thinking about some of the work that has been brought forth by the authors. The best thing about fiction is that all things are possible. Writers are able to bring twists to a tale and bring out not only the entertainment but also the lesson that is hidden. Love has a way to inspire a lot of fiction and, if you feel you are one of those people who love the fiction, you can easily try your hand at it. There are so many fictions for romance available for your to read. If you desire to read some classic tales for love, you will be in a position to do so easily. There are also modern fictions which cannot be compared to the old kind but, certainly with the unbeaten edge and twist of the modern life.A typical romance fiction might be anchored in an exciting setting. The historical aspects and others might feature prominently. Two people from the opposite sex will have their story of love told. Drama is the best word to describe how the fiction will play out. All fictions will have a certain plot. However, one common thing or sure thing in the romance fiction is that there will be love. The people will be used to communicate undying love to readers; love that is able to surpass all other things that you can imagine. People have been inspired to enter into relationships while others have been encouraged to work things out in the relationships. Sometimes, critics say that the fiction will exaggerate the emotion of love an present some unrealistic play outs in the fiction or drama. This is an aspect that makes the story more exciting but, it might not have real or practical application.Romance fiction can be viewed in various categories. You will find modern or contemporary fiction. You will also find fiction that is historical. There is also one that is paranormal. This is where the writer incorporates some superhuman or extra terrestrial occurrences in a love story. There is science fiction romance. It is closely related to time travel fiction. This is where the imagination goes wild and some of the things that are not common to science actually come to be. There are many lovers of this kind of romance. It is definitely entertaining as you celebrate love in all spheres. You will also find multicultural romance which is one between several cultures. The most common fiction of romance is erotic. This is the one that contains lots of sexual content which is made very obvious to the reader. It is also known as romantica therefore, the next time you want to read a love story, use the above knowledge to buy something you love.