Writing Prompts: Workplace Gossip
Where there are people, there is gossip. There’s no getting away from that. I suppose it is the result of not always having all the facts and so we let our imagination take over and fill in...(Keep Reading)
Novel Writing: Playing Chicken With Your Story
Part IV of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series And now we come to the hard bit. You’ve got your theme, and you’ve figured out how to bury it so that it’s there for you, and...(Keep Reading)
Writing Prompts: Workplace Memos
Well it’s Monday again and time to put our nose back to the grindstone. I decided that since we spend up to a third of our day, every day, in the workplace that this week’s writing...(Keep Reading)
Best of Craigslist: Part VI – Mom’s Edition
It’s Friday! And not just any Friday. It’s the Friday before the biggest holiday of the year. Mother’s Day. In keeping with this week’s Mom theme, here are some choice picks...(Keep Reading)
Novel Writing: Burying Your Novel’s Message
Part III of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series In the first two articles, we’ve explored how essential it is to have a theme to give your novel direction, and how to find those themes...(Keep Reading)
Writing Prompts: Animal Moms
So far this week, we’ve been focusing on human moms. Let’s take a moment and show a little appreciation for the other animal moms out there. There are a couple of ways you can write take...(Keep Reading)
Writing Prompts: Neurotic Moms
Okay, so everyone thinks their mom is a little bit crazy. Especially when she goes outside in her housecoat and rollers to get the morning newspaper or shows your boyfriend naked baby pictures of...(Keep Reading)
Writing Prompts: Supernatural Moms
Your characters aren’t often normal so why should their mom’s be? Today’s writing prompts will focus on moms who don’t exactly walk the straight and narrow. 1. Write the...(Keep Reading)
Writing Prompts: Motherhood
Sunday May 11th is Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day started off as a private celebration by Anna Jarvis of her mother Ann Jarvis who had launched “Mother’s Day” campaigns for...(Keep Reading)
Novel Writing: How to Find Your Novel’s Pulse
PART II of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series The best novels you’ve ever read—the ones that stuck in your mind and kept you going back to re-read them, that made you think, that...(Keep Reading)
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