Creative Tips:
How to Write a Love Letter to a Stranger
Writing love letters to random strangers is one of the most extraordinary things you can do in 5 minutes. It just needs a pen and paper.
Gender Bending Writing Tips
How would you describe a person if gender did not exist? The author Random Jordan offers some gender bending writing tips to get the juices flowing.
Writing Tip | Memory
Memory writing exercise. If you forgot your beloved, for example, what words would you write to yourself to fall in love all over again?
How NOT to take criticism as a writer
Any writer seeking to break into the industry will get both constructive and negative criticism. Ranting to publishers and reviewers is not an option.
Feminist Flash Fiction 2011 - Enter now!
Enter our feminist fiction writing competition - judged by a panel of noted feminist writers - to win £100, 1 yr BUST Magazine subscriptions & get your blog and writing promoted. Start writing & pass it on! Comp ends 30 Nov 2011
WOW! Women on Writing - Get paid to write
Women writers - have you heard of WOW yet? They're a huge, friendly community of and resource for women writers, with quarterly writing competitions and - best of all - they pay their contributors!
Cool Tumblr Names
Looking for awesome Tumblr names? Despairing that all the cool ones are gone? We'll show you how to think up Tumblr name ideas that are perfect and unique to you.
Short Story Writers: How to get published online, in a magazine... anywhere
Tips for getting your short stories published: Publishing is a numbers game. You've got to keep writing, keep submitting to online / print publishers, and build your author's bio with published work (not just short stories but also articles and reviews). Mookychick gives you handy writing tips and links to aid your quest.
Photoshop Tutorial - How to create Gothic effects in Photoshop
Photoshop Tutorial - These basic techniques will help you get started in Photoshop and have fun creating gothic portraits with black eyeliner, gothic hair and undead skin tones while you're at it.
5 Ways Writing Fanfiction Can Make You a Better Writer
Writing fanfiction really can make you a better writer. It cures writer's block, guarantees helpful critiques and more. 'My Immortal' (the worst fanfic ever) has given fanfictio an unfairly bad rep...
Basic Photography Tips
Basic Photography Tips - Tips for taking great photos.
How to be an artist in the 21st Century
You're an artist. Well done. Some brave soul had to do it. How do you become an artist that sells their work without selling out?
How to survive a creative writing degree
If you take an alternative degree (like creative writing) you're partly challenging yourself to follow the dream and partly acknowledging you're keeping your career options open. Diligence makes its mark on any degree you choose to go with in the end...
NaNoWriMo
When November hits, some of you writers out there may know what that means. For those of you who don't, let me enlighten you. November is National Novel Writing Month. Yes, you write a novel in a month. Simple!
How to write a novel
Have you always wished to write a novel? These handy hints and tips will get you past the dreaded writer's block that occurs somewhere around the third chapter...
Photography tips - How to direct models on a photoshoot
You want to use your friends as models on a photoshoot. Or perhaps you are heading into the world of professional photography. Find out how to get the best out of your models for beautiful photos.
Photography tips: How to get great photos on your crappy camera
Coax art magic out of your crappy little camera with a few handy photography tips. From force-flash to 'vintage' lomography, you'll be amazed at what your crappy little camera can do!
Flash fiction!
What is flash fiction? How do you write it? What can you do with it? Who will publish your work? Indulge in flash fiction and follow in the footsteps of Neil Gaiman...
How to write poetry like John Donne
Poetry exercises: Revered poet John Donne made quips about dildos and possibly invented the first 'your momma' joke. Check our poetry exercise for writing in his inflammatory style.
How to create a webcomic
Webcomic advice: What do Penny Arcade, PVP and Questionable Content have in common? They're all a webcomic that's made it. These common-sense tips will ensure your webcomic makes it too.
How to draw comics like Tim Burton
Comic art drawing tips: We show you how to draw in a darkly gothic comic art style echoing the spookycute world of Tim Burton. Bat-terrors not included.
How to write a haiku
Writing exercises: There's more to haiku that meets the eye. We give you 65 - yes, 65 - creative writing tips for writing haiku as tiny and slender and powerful as a shard of glass, with haiku formats and examples. We're not mucking about.
How to create an imaginary world
Creative tips: We show you how to create your own imaginary world and become a regular Tolkien. World building tips for writers and artists.
Improve your mooky memory with mnemonics
Improve your memory: Cell phones and the web remember things for us, but it's better to rely on yourself. Mnemonic mind-tricks can help creative people with untidy minds to actually remember things!
How to become penpals
Penpals: Build your letter writing and craft skills with foreign penpals - swap crazy sweets with them (be wary of Denmark they have salty liquorice), send them music and artwork... A penpal makes the world a better place. Here's how to become penpals.
Writer's block
Creative writing: All those who love creative writing eventually encounter the dreaded writer's block. Mistress Geenyus brings you the best creative writing tips out there for curing writer's block - all in 1 article!
Psychogeography for beginners
Ever felt drawn to strange old warehouses or wondered why people act like robots on their way to work? That's the semi-occult art of psychogeography - finding out how your environment shapes the way you think. It's as easy as poking your nose where it doesn't belong...
How to start turning your amateur photos into art
Geek World: Happy snapper photos and MySpace posing shots are the first step. Now it's time to start giving your amateur photos the edge. You don't need expensive equipment to have an artistic approach to photography - you just need to start building your artistic eye.
How to become a Mentat - a human computer
Psychology: Read/seen 'Dune'? We're going to teach you the Mentat technique of problem-solving. Turn yourself into a human computer to achieve impossible aims, from getting the perfect job/boy to writing a novel!
A quick guide to dream interpretation
Some say dreams are not just a way to make sense of what happened during the day but the means for important messages to reach us; messages that our logical self just doesn't pick up on. So here is a quick guide on reading your night time imaginings using a couple of different methods.
Creative magic, Craft & Spirituality
Magic and creativity: How to use arts and crafts to build your own connection with the spiritual world. Why do you think they call it the Craft?
Basic photography tips for all
Geek World: Who's been disappointed with the final results of a 'great' photo they've taken? Nobody? Ah. Everybody. With digital cameras you do at least get to delete the bad photos immediately, but as a photography student, Morgane mostly still uses good old film rolls and has to undergo the embarrassment of the teacher looking through all the photos and asking why she's cut everybody's feet off. Here are a few basic photography tips to bear in mind, whether the images you're capturing be arty or personal.
Your life... as a video game
Opinion: Ever seen a film or played a computer game and had it act like a filter so you see the whole world that way for a few minutes or hours? Liv tells you how to make the most out of playing your life like a video game.
The NATO phonetic alphabet
Girl Geek: Charlie, Foxtrot, Tango! Using the NATO phonetic alphabet to spell out your name or address over the phone is a thrill tantamount to espionage. Plus you can create your own code words...
Quoth the Turkey - a very Poe Christmas
A glorious yet unholy abomination of a poem, created by a Mookychick Twitter fan who rose to our Gothic Christmas writing challenge. Gasp in astonishment as Edgar Allan Poe does Christmas...!
Practical magic: Make a magical sigil
Working real magic turns your life into an adventure with limitless possibilities. We give you a step-by-step guide to making a sigil - a form of magic that brings you your heart's desire. And all you need is a pencil and paper...
A beginner's guide to dream interpretation
Dreams are stories expressed in a language from your own experience, says Caroline X. You might not be able to understand them readily but if you keep a dream diary and learn about your own personal dream meanings, some realisation might start to dawn....
Florigraphy - the language of flowers!
Florigraphy! From Druids to japanese hana kotoba to the Victorian language of flowers, we look at the beauty of flower symbolism and learn how to make a nosegay or tussie-mussie.
Internet memes
Every now and then, some pointless phrase or webpage (a 'meme') will infect a web surfer and start to jump from one mailbox to another. The REAL trick is to start your own. Mookychick shows you how!
Art, Photography and Writing Creative Tips
Browse creative tips, advice and tutorials from how to take model photos and write fantasy to how to get published, build an online craft store or land your art in an exhibition.
