2024 is slowly coming to a close. I hope you had a wonderful writing year. I have lots planned for 2025. books to be written, more content added to this site… The list goes on. I’ll be adding book reviews, market guides, interviews and the return of the Wednesday guest author starting in January. I’ll…
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Accept the Challenge-Sunday Drive
It’s almost Christmas but I know you have time to squeeze in a short story. How about one based on this clip? Have fun and happy writing.
Monday Motivation-Be Specific
Be as specific as you can when you write fiction. People read for that emotional fix so give them something to be emotional about whether it’s fear, anger, or pure joy.
Accept the Challenge-Hiking
It’s week two and here’s the video clip. Have fun and happy writing.
Monday Motivation-Just My Imagination
Try this as a simple writing warm up. Free write for ten minutes. Get out on the screen or on paper what’s in your imagination. It doesn’t have to make sense, a sentence here, a thought there…it’s for your eyes only.
Accept the Challenge-A Walk in the Snow
It’s the final month of the year. The final challenges for 2025 so I thought we’d use one of my favorite types of prompts, video clips. Each week you’ll see a short video and your challenge is to create a story based upon what you see. Have fun and happy writing.
Monday Motivation-Writing is Tough but…
Whoever said writing is easy has never tried writing a book. Some days it’s tough but if it’s in your heart to be an author, nothing should stop you…keep on going.
Accept the Challenge-The Meal
It’s the final week of this month’s Accept the Challenge and what better way to finish then with the actual Thanksgiving feast. Who cooks the meal? Who attends? And what happens after the meal? Have fun, happy writing and happy Thanksgiving to you all.
Monday Motivation-Your Life
We all have experiences that have stirred up emotions. It could be fear, joy, anger. As you write think about those emotions and let your characters experience them too.
Accept the Challenge-Football
It’s week three of our Thanksgiving related posts and this week it’s about the game of football. Does your character play in the game or watch the game? Have fun and happy writing.