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January 25, 2021January 22, 2021

Monday Motivation-Hold Onto Your Dreams

Your dream is to write. What are you doing to make that happen?

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January 22, 2021January 22, 2021

Friday Ramblings From An Author-Short Stories

My focus this week has been on short stories. Not writing them, but updating and revamping my old short story class to add lots more features and goodies for students. I’ve decided to add two different classes so I can offer one at a lower price and one a higher priced one with more features….

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January 21, 2021January 21, 2021

February Writing Challenge

Are you ready for a writing challenge? We’re ten days away from February, the shortest month of the year so let’s have a writing challenge here at This Writer’s Life? Each day, I’ll post something that I hope will inspire you to write that day. It could be a prompt or a writing tip or…

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January 19, 2021January 19, 2021

Writing-One Style Does Not Fit All

Have you ever picked up a writing how to book and followed the tips only to find they don’t work? Before you go blaming the author for giving you worthless advice, think about this… Think about something besides writing that you wanted to learn. Drive a car, learn to ski, play the guitar… Did you…

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January 18, 2021January 15, 2021

Monday Motivation-One Small Step

We all want to be published in big name magazines or get three book deals but sometimes the most meaningful victories are those first acceptance e-mails that come from smaller markets. Take it one step at a time and celebrate each byline. Enjoy the journey known as becoming a writer.

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January 14, 2021January 14, 2021

Five Exercises for Creating Characters Your Reader Will Love

My plot’s going nowhere. I can’t seem to get past chapter three. Sound familiar? Think it’s a plotting problem? Well, it might be but most of the time it’s a character problem. You’ve spent weeks working on your plot but haven’t given any thought to the type of person or persons who will live your…

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January 11, 2021January 8, 2021

Monday Motivation-It’s Possible

Does writing a book or getting published seem impossible to you? As you sit down to write this week, keep these words by Nelson Mandala in mind.

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January 8, 2021January 8, 2021

Friday Ramblings From An Author-First One of 2021

How did you first week of 2021 turn out? I hope you got lots of writing done…even got an acceptance letter or call about a story. This week seemed strange because for the first time in 12 years, I’m not teaching a class. I did however, begin work on the first class I’ll be uploading…

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January 6, 2021January 6, 2021

January Writing Prompts

It’s the first Wednesday of the month so that means it’s time for our new writing prompt format. Each first Wednesday, I’ll post a set of random prompts and ideas that you can use throughout the month to either, write a short story, improve one aspect of your writing or even use it to spark…

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January 5, 2021January 5, 2021

Welcome to the New Site

Happy New Year to you all. This Writer’s Life site has now gone from WordPress.com over to WordPress.org and I hope all followers and subscribers will receive this post. If someone could let me know you are, that would be great. You can send me an e-mail at writerslifeblog@gmail.com I’m going to use this post…

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