There’s nothing worse than staring at the blank page or flashing cursor on your laptop screen. Don’t waste time, don’t panic, just start writing, even if it has nothing to do with the story you intend to write. Think of this as a warm up for the day. 99% of the time, it’s all you…
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Accept the Challenge-Location, Location, Location
Ready for this week’s challenge? This one is a combination of a character, a photo and a line of dialogue. Here’s the challenge. Your main POV character is a real estate agent. They’ve just agreed to sale this abandoned property. Somewhere in the story they have to say the line, location, location, location. Hope you…
Wednesday Guest Author-Anne Hamilton Fowler
It’s Wednesday and time for another guest author. In fact, she’s a return guest author, please welcome back to This Writer’s Life, Anne Hamilton Fowler…. Thank you, Susan for inviting me back to contribute today. For those readers who read my post a few years ago, let me refresh your memory! I grew up in…
Monday Writing Wisdom-Don’t Plan Your Ending
Do you plan the ending of the book? Or does the ending surprise you? Sometimes actually writing the book can take your story in a whole new direction you never saw coming.
Accept the Challenge-3 Lines of Dialogue
A new challenge that I hope you’ll enjoy… Here are three lines of dialogue. “That will have to do.” “I told you this would happen.” “It’s going to rain tomorrow.” The challenge is to weave all three into your story. One could be at the beginning, one in the middle and one the final words…
Monday Writing Wisdom-Choosing the Right Word
One thing that can take your writing to the next level is choosing the right words. Sometimes one word can do the work of several paragraphs. This week do an exercise where you free write and then go back and see what words you can replace or even eliminate and compare the two.
Monday Writing Wisdom-Are You a Reader?
I don’t know a writer who wasn’t an avid reader before they became an author. Devote as much time as you can for writing but leave some time for reading. Reading is great for basic and continuing writing education.
Guest Author-Maggie Blackbird
Please welcome the first guest author of 2024 and it’s Maggie Blackbird. I’m a big music junkie. I love, love, love music. My fave genre is hard rock and heavy metal. Music serves as a big inspiration for me when it comes to writing. My latest release is Twisted Beauty, a m/m dystopian romance, so…
Accept the Challenge
Remember the old writing prompts on This Writer’s Life? I know many of you used them and even some people submitted the stories they created to publishers and got published! I didn’t post any last year but for 2024 I’m bringing them back with a slight tweak. They have a new name Accept the Challenge….
Monday Writing Wisdom-What’s Stopping You?
Welcome to a new feature on This Writer’s Life for 2024. It’s the Monday Writing Wisdom, each week, a writing related quote and a writing tip based upon it. This first one is for anyone who’s dreamed about writing a book or been talking about it and not taking action. Do you have a story…