Snow and freezing cold temperatures are making the news around the world. For this prompt, your character sets out to clear the driveway and path to their house but they find something buried in the snow. What that is and how the character reacts to it should be the focus of your story. Have…
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Friday Ramblings From An Author-First One in 2017
Happy New Year to you, hope it’s a good one for everyone with lots of stories written and much success. I’m slowly getting back into the swing of things. I had a lazy two weeks during the holidays and had to force myself to get back on track. A new workshop began on Tuesday…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Last One of the Year
It’s almost 2017, can you believe it? What writing goals did you achieve in 2016 and what are you planning on working on in the New Year? I have a full schedule of workshops in 2017 and things kick off on Tuesday. I’m teaching You’ve Written a Manuscript, Now What? for the Low Country…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Have a Merry Christmas
A slow work week. I think just about everyone took the week off so I’ve spent time finishing a few projects and enjoying the less than hectic pace. This is a great time of the year to think about all that you’ve achieved and what you want to tackle next year. I have my list…
Monday Writing Prompts-Train Journey
Here’s another photo prompt. Your character is going somewhere new to spend the holidays. They’ve decided to go by train. What happens and who do they meet on the ride? Have fun and happy writing.
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Cold, Snow, Cold, Snow
The title I’ve given this week’s Ramblings sums up what the weather has been like this past week. I don’t want to hear anyone singing I’m Dreaming of A White Christmas. It’s snowing again as I write this and it’s not even officially winter yet. I’ll stop my whining now and tell you about the non-weather…
Monday Writing Prompts-Snowmobile
Here is this Monday’s photo and your character decides to try out his or her new snowmobile. What do they see along the way and what happens along the way? Have fun and happy writing.
Monday Writing Prompts-Winter Wonderland
It’s December and each Monday’s prompt will be a photo one. Here’s the first one. Imagine your character taking a walk along this path. Who do they meet or what do they see? Maybe they even make a life changing decision. Have fun and happy writing.
Friday Ramblings From An Author-It’s December
NaNoWriMo is over for another year. How did you do? I’m happy to say at least I got my mystery started. Finishing it is on my to do list for next year. Yesterday my new planner arrived in the mail. It’s the first year I’ve bought one in what seems like forever. I chose one where…
NaNoWriMo-Days 28, 29 and 30
My apologies for not posting tips for the last couple of days but I got busy formatting books and trying to add more words to my NaNoWriMo story. It’s the final day of the challenge and while I haven’t finished the story, I have written 50,000 words plus this month which leads me into the…