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.
Author: This Writer's Life
Brainstorming Techniques During NaNoWriMo So You Can Get Back to Your Novel by Beth Barany
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…
Monday Motivation-Who Said It Was Going to Be Easy?
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…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Hello November
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…
And So It Begins-NaNoWriMo 2018
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…
Promptober Day 31
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).
Promptober-Day 30
Today’s prompt is the word haunted.
Are You Overwriting?
Say hello to today’s guest blogger, Ann Everett who offers us advice on something that can often be an Achilles’ heel even for published writers… Overwriting: This is a mistake all new writers make. They over explain either through description or action. Heck, in first drafts, I still do it. Here are some examples: Gus pulled his gun belt tight…
Promptober-Day 29
We’re in the final three days of Promptober. How many stories have you created? Created any that you think you’ll submit to a publication or even self-publish? It’s the week of Halloween so I thought we’d finish out all three days with some spooky prompts. Today’s one is a ghost story…is there one you’ve been…
Promptober Day 28
October means pumpkins so they’re the object of today’s prompt-