Category: Blog
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The Important Thing is the Story
I remember when I first started getting serious about writing, around the age of 14, how when I would find myself trying to figure things out for whatever genre I wanted to tackle, I would have a dream about Stephen King. The first time it happened there was an avalanche, and he and I were…
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Monday’s Muse May 16, 2022
Welcome to Monday’s Muse, a guided and timed writing prompt to start your writing week off with a creative bang! THIS WEEK’S IMAGE: THIS WEEK’S STARTER SENTENCE: “Hunger, the likes of which she’d never felt before, scraped the sides of her belly with an unrelenting clawing that made her groan.” RULES: Using the sentence above…
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Why Do We Write?
“Do you write to impress or do you write to improve?” ~CANDICE COATES The thought suddenly came to my head several years back. It is always a good thing to go back to the beginning, remember the plans that you first had when you began your creative journey. For me, as an author who had…
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Anchored in Your Craft: Remembering Why You Write
So you’ve decided that you are going to finally sit down and write a novel. Or if you’ve been writing but have found yourself having been engaged in a long sabbatical, now you are going to get back to the craft. Fantastic! Making the decision to sit down and actually write can sometimes be one…
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