It’s hard to believe it’s October on Sunday. I always think once Halloween is over the end of the year rushes at you at a frightening pace. I get rights back to three books next month so I’ve been busy making covers for them and slowly working on their revamp. One other priority has been…
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Monday Writing Prompts-Words With More Than One Meaning
This week I thought we’d try something a little different. Here are two words, fall, leaves. In your short story you’re not only going to use them but try and use them in as many ways as you can to show all of their meanings… For example, It’s fall. I hope the tree doesn’t fall down. The…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-TV Pilot Underway
Happy fall everyone…strange that where I live there’s a heat advisory and it’s muggy. I finally got my TV pilot script started. I love launching new projects! Today I sat down and wrote all my ‘beats’ on index cards. It’s making me think more visually than I usually do when I write novels. It’s a…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Critique Group for Published Writers
Feels more like summer than August did but the leaves are still turning and falling. I’m worried it’s going to be an early winter but still remaining optimistic. I’m in the middle of giving my office an overhaul, changing things around and getting ready to sit down and start writing the script for my TV…
Monday Writing Prompts-Speeding
Today’s prompt focuses on a character who is caught speeding. It could be their first time or their maybe they’ve been pulled over multiple times and they’re about to lose their license. Perhaps they’re in a brand new car. Do they talk their way out of it or are they going to get that ticket no…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Introducing The Writer’s Room
Welcome to September and that means my new blog debuts over at Coffeetime Romance. It’s called The Writer’s Room and on the first Friday of every month I’ll be writing an article about something writing related. Here’s the link if you want to check it out- http://coffeetimeromance.com/ And a shout out to Karenne who’s…
Monday Writing Prompts-Abandoned Places
This week’s prompt focuses on this photo- Maybe your character stumbles upon it by chance. Perhaps it’s a place they once visited in their childhood. Maybe something bad happened there. Lots of possibilities so have fun and happy writing.
Writing Through Loss and Writer’s Block
In my last Ramblings I mentioned that I wanted to pen a post about writing through painful events in your life so here it is. If you didn’t see last Friday’s Ramblings you won’t know that I recently learned that someone who was(and I should say, still is), very special to me, had passed…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Summer’s Going too Fast
It’s been raining every day…not that I mind but it’s reminded me that summer is going too fast. It’s the first year I haven’t taken a break from teaching and I’m feeling like I’ll need some sort of break to recharge my writing batteries before fall arrives. Anyone else ever feel like they just…
Monday Writing Prompts-Three Word Challenge
I thought we’d try something different this week. I’m calling it the three word challenge. Using your main character’s dialogue, he or she has to say the following three words somewhere in your story. They are- camera watch whiskey I hope this one’s a fun prompt for you to tackle. Happy writing.