The Top 42 Writing Posts of 2014 from Writers Write of South Africa

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The Top 42 Writing Posts of 2014

Last year we posted The Top 42 Writing Posts of 2013. We want to carry on this tradition every year. 
These were the posts you wanted to see on this website in 2014. We have also included the number of views each post received as at 30 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.     Eight Commonly Misused Words	57,221
4.     The Five 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.     Five 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 Six 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.    What does it take to write a book? The five 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 five 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.    Seven 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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