Here’s the second part of Beth’s guest post… Interview Your Characters Imagine one of your characters is sitting across the table from you, sipping a beverage, and looking at you. Keep your story in mind as you ask questions. Interview them and take notes. If you don’t know your story at all yet, all the…
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Wednesday Writing Prompts-Mystery Man
When I’m planning these writing prompts, I often think of an idea and then go looking for a photo to accompany it. This week, while doing that, I stumbled across this photo and decided to change the theme of this week’s prompt. I love photos that pull you in because they have some sort of mystery about…
Get To Know Your Characters before You Write Your Novel by Beth Barany
Beth Barany is back with us and here’s the first of her two part blog about creating great characters for your story…. Many authors want to get to know their writers better before they write their novels but don’t know where to begin. One way to get to know them is to interview them. I love…
Monday Motivation-What’s Your Passion?
I know you can interpret quotes in many ways. However, as a writer I like to think this one means if writing is your truly you’re thing and it’s that thing that excites and you can wait to sit down and write then you’re going to get the work done. I also think you’ll be good…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Shame Yourself and Get It Done
One thing I did over the break was look at all the work I’d started and never finished. Articles half completed, stories with just a few sentences, a book half written, and some non-fiction books started last year… The list goes on and I hadn’t realized how many unfinished projects I had. I was suddenly…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-A Staircase to Where?
Our first writing prompt of 2019 and it’s all about a reoccurring dream your character is experiencing. He or she keeps dreaming about the same spiral staircase, night after night… What does your character think it means? Is it a good or bad thing for them…maybe a memory from the past? Or does the staircase…
Story Length-Does it Matter?
Say hello to the first guest blogger of 2019, Barbara Plum whose post takes us back to our school days… Remember those dreaded high-school English themes? Did your teacher, when asked about length, compare the assignment to a skirt? “Long enough to cover the subject. Short enough to be interesting.” Say what? How does this…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-2018…that’s a wrap
Welcome winter (or summer…I know many of the TWL followers live in Australia and New Zealand). Another year is slowly becoming history. It’s the end of the work year for me. I’m planning to take a two week break from most of my usual writing activities. There will not be a Monday Motivation or Prompts for the next two weeks, but…
Goal Setting for the Pantster??
Say hello to our last guest blogger of the year, Shannon Nemechek… Goal setting for the pantster? Sure, why not?? As a pantster born and bred there has always been one GOAL- well maybe a few but basically my number one goal has always been write, write, write. I have tried to plot but…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Snow and Moonlight
Here’s our final writing prompt for the year and it’s based on this photo. Has you character seen snow before? Maybe they decide to take a stroll outside under the moonlight. Perhaps they’re meeting someone at midnight… Have fun and happy writing. Writing Prompts will be back on January 9th.