Tips and Advice About Writing and Self-Publishing
Distractions are the Achilles’ heel for everyone but for a writer those moments when you check your e-mail or click on YouTube can be the reason you’ve never finished your novel. This week figure out what distracts you the most. Is it friends stopping by, text messages popping up on your phone… Make a…
It’s snowing, it’s cold, and I’m already missing summer. I often write about bears, well actually bear shifters, and I think they must be the smartest animals because they choose to sleep through winter. Thank you to this week’s guest blogger, Beth…she’ll be back with us again in January. How is everyone doing with NaNoWriMo?…
It’s time for another Hi Susan post. This question was e-mailed to me by Jenny- I keep getting rejection after rejection and I’m getting to the point where I want to give up. Will I ever write a story that’s good enough to be published? Been there, had that happen, and also had thoughts of giving up.…
Welcome back to your Wednesday Writing Prompts. This week you have a choice. Your story can either be based on the above photo or one character in your story has to say the line- It was just a walk in the park. Have fun and happy writing.
Beth Barany is back with us and this time gives us some tips about brainstorming… You’ve started your novel with NaNoWriMo. Hurrah and congrats! But maybe on some days you lose your focus and don’t know what to write next. If you haven’t planned your novel ahead of time, then you may need some…
Read more Brainstorming Techniques During NaNoWriMo So You Can Get Back to Your Novel by Beth Barany
Whether you’re taking the NaNoWriMo challenge or just attempting to write a book, even a short story, some days it’s an uphill battle. Even when you’ve been writing for years. Even when you do it for a living and your bank account is relying on you to write, there are days your motivation’s going to…
Read more Monday Motivation-Who Said It Was Going to Be Easy?
It’s the first Ramblings of November. I’m happy to say I got a lot done but glad the work week is almost over. Thank you to Ann, this week’s guest blogger. If you’d like to be a guest blogger next year, feel free to contact me and I can put you on the schedule. Two classes…
Promptober’s history and I hope you enjoyed it. Today I thought I’d kick off NaNoWriMo 2018 with a pep talk for everyone, (myself included). It’s sort of ironic because as I’m putting this together, writing is the last thing I actually want to do. It’s Wednesday evening, it’s been a busy week, finishing…
Here we are at the last day of Promptober. It’s Halloween so today’s story is, yes, you guessed it, a horror story. Happy Halloween to all. (The regular Wednesday prompts will return next week).
Today’s prompt is the word haunted.
