It’s October, another month, another set of challenges and it’s spooky season. Each Thursday in October, the prompt will be a mysterious photo and your challenge is to create a story based upon it. Here’s the first one. Have fun and happy writing.
Author: This Writer's Life
Monday Writing Tips-The Writer’s Notebook
My first tip to students is always the same. Carry a notebook with you at all times. You never know when you’re going to get an idea for a story, a character or even a location. Jot down anything that comes into your head. Believe me when I say, one day you’ll use it in…
Book Stop Tour-Helen Gillespie author of The Goodbyes
Please welcome author, Helen Gillespie on her book tour for her latest book, The Goodbyes… TWL-Why and when did you decide to become an author? Although writing a novel took many years, I had previously written many newspaper articles that centered on personalities and their achievements. I found myself on this trajectory when I signed…
Monday Writing Tips-Writing Isn’t Easy
Most of the writers I mentor and coach tell me the same thing, writing looks easier than it is. I often tell them it’s a bit like one of those circus acts…you know the one where they keep all the plates spinning at the very same time. There’s plotting, characters, point of view, narration…. Write…
Accept the Challenge-Sweaters
Welcome to week three of our September challenge and this one is all about clothing. It could be an opening sentence, the final one or even planned deep withing your story but someone in your story needs to use the follow piece of dialogue… “It definitely feels like it’s sweater season now.” Have fun and…
Book Stop Tour- Cynthia Flowers-Only You
Please welcome Cynthia Flowers, author of Only in September on her book stop tour… GENRE: Women’s Fiction BLURB: When Jacqueline follows her trusty Labrador Bailey down a hidden path to the beach, she’s unaware that her vacation plans on a small island off the New England coast has already taken her life in a new…
Monday Writing Tips-Finding Your Why
Why do you like to write, why do you want to be an author? Write your response on a sheet of paper and keep it close to the place where you write. Next time you get a rejection letter or it’s a tough day, look at that sheet of paper and remember why you’re going…
Accept the Challenge-Changing Color
It’s week two and your character needs to use the following line in your story “I saw the first of the leaves had changed color.” Have fun and happy writing.
Monday Writing Tips-Writing is Drama
Something has to happen in your story. No one wants to read about a character who faces no challenges. What’s standing in the way of your character’s goals? Who and what is stopping your character from being happy? Figure that out and you have the beginning of a great story.
Book Tour Stop-Marc Macdonald
Please welcome Marc Macdonald to This Writer’s Life. This is one stop on his book tour to support his novel Between Two Seasons. TWL-Why and when did you decide to become an author? I was one of many writers how finally sat down to write the novel living in their heads during the COVID-19…