Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we continue working on writing setting. Today, I want you to show how a character’s internal world affects how they perceive their external environment. Today’s prompt: Write the set-up for two scenes: In the first scene, a character walks outside one day feeling a certain way. In the second scene, that same […]
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Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we continue working on setting. If you need to catch up, read the full instructions on this week’s prompts. Today’s prompt: Write a scene in which your character feels the following mood while in the setting listed below: Setting: An Amusement Park Mood: Humble You can post your daily writing exercises […]
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Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we continue working on setting. I want you to describe that setting from that character’s (or your) point-of-view while that character is experiencing a certain mood and while using more sensory detail than simply sight. You don’t have to use all five senses but include at least a […]
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Words save. Books save. Save yourself by digging into this list of 25 Works of Poetry and Fiction for Anger and Action by Literary Hub. In the few days since the devastating results of the 2016 presidential election, many people have written about the place of art in times of grief, fear, and disaster. Literature can […]
I love this column by Janice Hardy where she takes a piece of a writer’s work and critiques it on her blog. She gives us a glimpse into how editors read and critique fiction – sentence by sentence. For me, it validates how I evaluate a writer’s work, and it helps me analyze my writing […]
All the things you’ve wanted to say to non-readers your whole life but never had the courage to say. Now you can just point people to this article. Dear non-reader: Readers aren’t unicorns. We don’t require special treatment, nor do we count the minutes until we can ditch you and go back to our books […]