It’s Halloween and today This Writer’s Life shares with you an anthology called Toil and Trouble. Be sure to enter the drawing for the $10 gift card. TOIL AND TROUBLE Jennifer Patricia O’Keeffe, Lynn Hubbard, Cindy Lewis Smith, James Ryan, Julian Christian, and Jae El Foster GENRE: Romantic Horror Halloween Anthology BLURB: The brew is…
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Accept the Challenge-Milky Way
It’s the last week of the challenge. This week the image is the Milky Way. What sort of spooky story can you create? Have fun and happy writing.
Monday Writing Tips-Don’t Worry
Don’t worry if you don’t make money on your first short story. Getting a byline and gaining confidence is the key. In your early career, don’t say no to a publication printing your story for just a contributor copy and no money. Hold up that publication and say, I’m an author.
Accept the Challenge-Clouds
This week it’s all about clouds. What sort of story can you create? Have fun and happy writing.
Monday Writing Tips-Keep Writing
Even if you don’t feel like it, write. It could be just a few lines or a page, but get in the habit of writing each and every day.
Accept the Challenge-A Magic Tree
It’s week three and here’s another image to base your short story. What’s going on with this tree? Is it magical? Have fun and happy writing.
Monday Writing Tip-It’s Fiction
Sometimes life doesn’t make sense but your story has to. Names have to be consistent, timelines have to be accurate etc. Remember this when you do your final edit and before you hit the send button to an editor or agent.
Guest Author Amber Daulton
Please welcome back Amber Daulton to This Writer’s Life and check out her new release Lost in His Spiderwebs… Lost in His Spiderwebs is the second book in the Lozano Cartel series and follows the gripping love story of Rubén Lozano and Drina Cabrera in an unexpected, intense second-chance dark romance. Rubén is not a…
Monday Writing Prompt-You Can Do This
I have lots of students who tell me that they don’t think their writing is good enough, it can’t compete with bestselling authors. Don’t ever compare yourself with anyone else. Always remember that even bestselling authors were once beginners.
Accept the Challenge-Spooky
It’s October, another month, another set of challenges and it’s spooky season. Each Thursday in October, the prompt will be a mysterious photo and your challenge is to create a story based upon it. Here’s the first one. Have fun and happy writing.