For this week’s prompt someone gets fired from their job. Is it your lead character who gets fired or does the firing? Why are they getting fired? Are they happy or sad because they love the job? If it’s your lead character who fires another character, have they done this before? Are they nervous or is…
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Personal Thoughts on Being a Writer with Tory Richards
Today, author Tory Richards shares with you her personal journey to authorship…. Write about what you know. Heard that saying before? Well, it wasn’t much, and it certainly wouldn’t have held reader’s interests. I began writing when I was ten, on notebook paper. How much could a ten year old know, and especially about…
Summer Writing ‘Retreat’
After sitting outside reading for most of Sunday afternoon, I came up with an idea for summer. Many people have an idea for a story, lots of people say they’re going to write a book, and yes, even published writers like myself, have unfinished manuscripts sitting on their computer(or gathering dust on a shelf)….
Monday Motivation-Just Get Writing
How’s this for motivation… Make a schedule for the next seven days. It could be morning, afternoon, evening, but sit in front of the keyboards or with a notebook on your lap and write for ten minutes. No stopping and no gazing out of the window. This will be your writing time and nothing else….
Making Time To Write
Say hello to our guest blogger, Angela Drake who today tackles an important topic for writers and that’s making time to write. Making time to write has been a problem for writers the world over for years. You would think with technology, other items on our To-Do list would be ticked off faster, freeing…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-The Grass Is Always Greener
This week’s prompt is based on the saying- The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Does you character utter these words? Does someone else say them to your character? Is the character thinking of moving someplace else? Maybe your character is envious about the neighbor having a better looking garden?…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-A Growing Community
Spring didn’t seem to last long because today is 20 degrees cooler than it was on Monday(and yes, I did get outside and write that day!). Wednesday is supposed to be close to 80 which means more outside writing. Thank you to this week’s guest bloggers and everyone who contacted me about what you’d like…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-The Sound of Silence
I got the idea for this week’s prompt while I was sitting outside on Sunday afternoon. Go outside and listen to what you can hear. For me it was birds singing, a dog barking, and a plane flying overhead. Write a short story based on the noises you hear. Have fun and happy writing.
Wednesday Writing Prompts-The Light At the End of the Tunnel
For this week’s prompt, the word’s the light at the end of the tunnel should feature somewhere in it. It could be the title. It could be a line of dialogue. It could be the theme. It could even be the opening or closing line. Have fun and happy writing.
Plotter vs. Panster or How I Became a Plotser by Judy Penz Sheluk
Not sure if you’re a plotter or a punster, author Judy Penz Sheluk might have the solution… As a pantser (someone who writes without an outline, outside of a rough idea of where the story might be going), I’ve always envied plotters (someone who actually knows where the story is going before they begin to…