I spend my days not only writing and working with aspiring writers, but following industry trends. My golden rule is don’t write to trends but it’s the wise writer who’s in the know about what’s hot and what’s not. Remember the vampire era…Twilight and everyone jumping on the bandwagon of writing a story with a…
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Learning new things is scary, even thinking about trying something new is scary too. If you want to grow as a writer (or even just a human being), you’ve got to step outside the comfort zone. What’s an author’s comfort zone? Writing the same sort of stories, the same genre day after day, maybe…
Let’s kick off the May prompts with a story centered around a little furry creature. It can also be used as a character building exercise to figure out how he or she reacts in certain situations. Your character wakes up to find he or she is not alone. There’s a mouse in the house.…
No Tuesday guest blogger today and I didn’t have time to write a post so I thought the next best thing was another story sparkler. Here are a set of objects that need to be fitted into a short story. You can use one or if you’re brave enough, all of them. Have fun.…
This quote says it all, don’t wait until tomorrow, write today.
Welcome to May. Some people thought April moved along slowly but for me, it flew by. I couldn’t believe that I was already posting a final message to my April students. Plotting Your Novel boot camp kicks off on Monday. We still have some spaces open if you’re interested. We decided to cancel…
Do you often suffer from a sagging middle? I know that sounds like the beginning of an ad or sales pitch for some miracle weight loss or exercise cure but it’s a huge problem for authors. And no, not because we sit on our butts a lot. I’m talking about the story that starts perfectly…
The last prompt of the month so I thought we’d try a photo one. Here it is…what sort of story can you conjure up? Have fun and happy writing.
Say hello to today’s guest blogger, Luanna Stewart… When did you begin writing? My first book was published in 2010, under a previous pen name, and I’d been writing for a couple years before that. What’s been your biggest challenge? About six months after I started writing (with the idea of some day publishing) I…
One of the first things I make my coaching students do is set a deadline. Without one, you get lost, you stay unfocused, and today becomes tomorrow, next week, next month, and before you know it you’re the person who wanted to write a book one day. This week make a note of the deadline…
