Tag: 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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Genre Talk: Dark Fantasy
From heroic to epic and everything in between, the fantasy genre has something for everyone who loves a touch of magic in their fiction. Fantasy is defined as any story, artwork, or film with elements that are scientifically impossible and are often set in imaginary worlds. That which is impossible is explained as magic and…
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Keeping the Story Real
It’s writing Wednesday and yet another chance to inundate the webverse with more unsolicited writing advice. Woo Hoo! Today’s topic is about keeping it real when it comes to plotting a story. I’m sure we’ve all seen or read at least one story where something happens that’s hopefully exciting or at least vaguely interesting, but…
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Writing Fantasy Profanity
It’s writer Wednesday and today we are going to delve into the risque topic of fantasy profanity. Well, ok, it’s not all that risque. In fact, the reason many people like fantasy novels is that there is rarely ever any swearing. Instead, we enter the world of alternate swearing. In a fantasy world there are…
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Grammarland: Then vs Than
It’s Writer Wednesday here and today we will tackle a mini grammar concept – the difference between then and than. These writing-themed posts used to be the weekly mainstay of my other blog, My Literary Quest, but will now be hosted here and reblogged there. Then can be used as three different parts of speech,…
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The Finish Line is in Sight
Next week marks the magical and wonderous time where I send the oldest two children back to school. This is the first year when they will both go for the full day and I can’t contain my excitement. The last six weeks of summer vacation have been exhausting, the house is a mess, and the…
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A Weighty Issue
Writing is a sedentary activity. Although there are several clever ways to make it less of one, the fact is most people do it while sitting. There are treadmill desks where writers can walk slowly while they tap away at the keys. There are standing desks where instead of sitting you stand which is supposed…
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My Distractions are Bigger Than Yours
For all those who are anxiously waiting for another episode of Mike Finnegan, I apologize. He will be making his next appearance next Friday when I have had time to write another episode. For now, I only have time and energy for a brief update. I’ve had my novel on my mind constantly these last…