Live Your Dream
This week, the prompt is all about lost treasure. Your character moves into a new home, decides to plant something in the garden, and while digging, unearth some coins. What are they? Are they valuable? What’s the date on them? What do they proceed to do with them and what’s the outcome? If you’re journalling,…
This week’s guest blogger is Tricia Schneider… When did you begin writing? I wrote my first novel when I was 15 during summer vacation. It was a fantasy romance inspired by a strange dream I had one night. I still think often about that story. I wrote several more novel-length and short stories during my…
I love this quote. We’re given the gift of writing, of sharing words, stories and thoughts with the world. Each day remember this special talent and put it to good use.
Ever had a week where you hope it is Friday and your mind isn’t playing tricks on you? I’ve been checking things off my to do list,and as most of them are word related, I think I’m word fatigued. Is there such a thing? You know you have it when simple words suddenly don’t look…
No matter your profession or pursuit, you never stop learning and trying to improve your craft. Even if you’ve been writing ten, twenty, or thirty years, you should treat each day as a way to improve your prose, to step outside your comfort zone or use it as an opportunity to ask your fellow…
We have what a big snow storm headed this way…well, at least that’s what they’re predicting. Guess I’ve picked the best weekend to tackle some DIY projects around the house. Over the holidays, I made a list of my winter reading but am ashamed to say, I’m only ten pages into book one on…
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Last month while I was checking the weather forecast, extremely cold was written for one day, frigid the next. As a writer, words fascinate me. The choice of words my fellow authors pick intrigue me. As in the case of whoever write this forecast. What’s the difference between extremely cold and frigid? According my dictionary,…
When did you begin writing? My journey in writing and publishing has been a very long one. I’d always been good at all forms of writing for as long as I can remember – business, school, college, creative, advertising & marketing. But I started writing creatively with the intent to publish novels about 15 years…
This quote reminds me that no matter how hard something is, even if it sometimes seems out of reach, if it’s that thing in life that matters and deep in your heart, you’ll find someway to achieve it. If it’s writing a book or becoming a freelancer that matters to you, you can do it.…
The first full work week of 2020 is almost history. I don’t know what it is about the turn of the calendar…or maybe it’s being inside during cold weather, but I always seem to get lots done on my to do list. The Plotting Boot Camp begin on Monday and I have to say it’s…
