With NaNoWriMo coming up in under a month, I wanted to let you in on a little-known book that you can pick up now to help you get through the NaNoWriMo month a little easier. It’s a book full of perfect NaNoWriMo Writing Prompts.
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30 Story Structure and Character Questions: NaNoWriMo Prep for October
This is a mix of what I’ve learnt from Larry Brooks and Robert McKee, which may help you to quickly prepare for NaNoWriMo or writing a novel in a month or rather 50,000 words. The following list of prompts is to help guide you into finding your story and helping you to create a scene list that you can work with during November. Remember, it’s action
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Have You Tried These 5 Unique Love Story Idea Generators?
There are a few story idea generators out there, and today I wanted to give you a handy list with all the best ones. This week, I’m focusing on Romance. That’s right, romance… Aka love stories. This is a very popular genre that people love to write in or give a go, since it’s such a popular genre for readers.
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The Busy Writer 30 Day Writing Challenge: September
Another month of writing prompts… a writing challenge combining bullet journaling, writing prompts and Morning Pages…
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30 Perfect Last Line Writing Prompts To Get Your Pen Moving
So, I know a lot of my readers like first line writing prompts, so I decided to pull together a list of awesome last liners from popular and unpopular novels to use a writing kick starter. Use these famous last novel lines as a story starter or prompt to help you start a new short story or something longer.
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30 Fantastical Fairy Tale Writing Prompts For Your Next Short Story
I’ve talked about using portrait images (book-cover writing prompts) for your fiction writing before, and today I want to give you some examples. 30 to be exact.
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The Three Truths of “How To Be a Writer”: John Birmingham Review
A guest post from Thomas Gregory on John Birmingham’s excellent “How To Be a Writer”:
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The Busy Writer 30 Day Writing Challenge: August
I am inspired by all these bullet journals spreads and writing challenges. Everyone loves a good bullet journal spread, and most writers love a good writing prompt, and we all seem to love these 30-Day Challenges…
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4 Lessons From Stephen King’s “On Writing” – Review
I am SOO excited to present this article from a gem of a writer who I’ve just found. Thomas Gregory gives us a thought-provoking and entertaining “review” of Stephen King’s masterpiece on creative writing “On Writing”.
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How to Write Short Stories – A Holly Lisle Class Review
Just a quick post today — as you might have noticed, I just LOVE Holly Lisle’s writing classes. I’m actually super gutted I’ve found them so late in my life, as they are really helping me achieve some major writing goals (in particular, actually finishing stuff.) With this site, I wanted to give you a shortcut to the writing techniques I’ve learnt over the years, but then I found
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