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.
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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…
Accept the Challenge-Raindrops or Bubbles?
Week two of our spooky challenge and here’s the image. Are these raindrops or bubbles or maybe something alien? Have fun and happy writing.
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.
Monday Writing Tips-The Writer’s Notebook
My first tip to students is always the same. Carry a notebook with you at all times. You never know when you’re going to get an idea for a story, a character or even a location. Jot down anything that comes into your head. Believe me when I say, one day you’ll use it in…