Tag: fiction writing
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Writing Exercise: Three Nouns
One of the toughest parts of the writing process is getting started on a new project. While the easiest way to overcome white page paralysis is to embrace the “crappy first draft” idea there are other options. Today’s writing exercise comes from WritingExercises.co.uk where you can find hundreds of prompt generators, randomizers, and all other…
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Fantasy in Real Life: Bike in Tree Micro Fiction Contest
The story behind this surreal image is that in 1914 a boy left his bike chained to a tree, then went to war and then never returned. As it is writer Wednesday, let’s use this as a writing prompt and create something even more awesome. Your challenge: Write a micro fiction (100 words or less)…
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Using Rites and Rituals in Fiction
We’ve come around back to writer Wednesday once more and today we are talking about using rites and rituals in fiction. When I say rites and rituals, I’m referring to any choreographed set of actions performed by several people that is meant to add importance to an event. For the sake of this post we…
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2013 Year in Review
2013 has been a fantastic year, I’ve had a great time with this new blog while continuing posting over at my blog for writers, My Literary Quest. Here are the most popular posts from this blog this year: Everything I need to know about life I learned from Spongebob – As with most popular memes, this…
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Meet the Cast: Alystra
So far, in the Meet the Cast series of posts, we’ve met the hero, villian, and the hero’s friend. Today we are going to explore a vital member of the supporting cast. In the society of the immortal Stonebearers there are three towers that govern the three distinct areas of the world. Alystra holds the…