These were the posts you wanted to see on this website in 2014.
Last year we posted The Top 42 Writing Posts of 2013. We want to carry on this tradition every year. We have also included the number of views each post received as at 31 December 2014.
The articles are written by Amanda Patterson, Mia Botha and Anthony Ehlers.
The runaway favourite with more than one million views was 45 ways to avoid using the word ‘very’
Please tell us which post you liked best in the comments section below.
| Post |
Views |
| 1. 45 Ways To Avoid Using The Word ‘Very’ |
1,361,105 |
| 2. Cheat Sheets For Writing Body Language |
325,064 |
| 3. 8 Commonly Misused Words |
57,221 |
| 4. The 5 Elements of a Story |
34,971 |
| 5. Persuasive Writing – Emotional vs Intellectual Words |
32,935 |
| 6. 15 Questions Authors Should Ask Characters |
31,351 |
| 7. The Locked Room – A simple way to test your plot |
26,559 |
| 8. 5 Incredibly Simple Ways to Help Writers Show and Not Tell |
22,196 |
| 9. The Importance of Inciting Moments |
18,733 |
| 10. 50 Lyric Titles As Writing Prompts |
17,004 |
| 11. The 12 Question Fiction Writing Conflict Test |
14,036 |
| 12. The 6 Defining Characteristics of Strong Female Protagonists |
11,717 |
| 13. 10 Things Successful Authors Do |
11,154 |
| 14. Universal Needs – Creating Characters |
10,546 |
| 15. How To Write A One-Page Synopsis |
9,659 |
| 16. An Editing Checklist For Writers |
9,554 |
| 17. 10 Short Story Competitions To Enter Before The End Of 2014 |
9,506 |
| 18. The 5 Qualities Published Authors Share |
9,472 |
| 19. Know Your Dashes |
9,366 |
| 20. Confessions of a Serial Killer- How to kill characters when you write |
9,352 |
| 21. Character Questionnaire – How well do you know your hero? |
8,901 |
| 22. 10 (Amazingly Simple) Tips to Get You Back on The Writing Track |
8,858 |
| 23. Which one of these is your favourite writing position? |
8,411 |
| 24. The Top 42 Writing Posts of 2013 |
8,400 |
| 25. Psychopath or Sociopath – What’s the difference? |
8,361 |
| 26. Which Famous Writer’s Style Is Most Like Your Own? |
8,031 |
| 27. How the 5 senses make stories seem real |
7,721 |
| 28. Types of Love – Creating Characters |
7,580 |
| 29. The 25 Best Quotes About Authors |
7,563 |
| 30. 21 Literary Quotes on Beginnings, Middles, and Endings |
7,379 |
| 31. Five guaranteed ways to bore your reader |
7,104 |
| 32. A Fabulous Resource for Writers – 350 Character Traits |
7,087 |
| 33. Punctuation Personality Types – Which one are you? |
7,034 |
| 34. 10 Things You Didn’t Know About JK Rowling |
6,768 |
| 35. Seven Extremely Good Reasons to Write the Ending First |
6,730 |
| 36. 7 Essential Things to Remember about Very Important Characters |
6,486 |
| 37. Why you need strong verbs when you write |
6,400 |
| 38. 20 words used to describe specific tastes and flavours |
6,304 |
| 39. 17 Ways To Make your Novel More Memorable |
6,267 |
| 40. Writing About Characters With Phobias |
6,201 |
| 41. How to make your characters shockingly real |
6,023 |
| 42. Examples of Character Archetypes |
6,014 |
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This is a great list. Will be bookmarking and coming back. I’ve really enjoyed the cheat sheets. I print them out and keep them beside my computer. Thanks.