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What To Write Every Day: A Writer’s Foolproof Guide

October 6, 2017 by Erica Leave a Comment

What should you be writing every day if you are a writer? This is something you may ask yourself now and then…

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7 Inspiring Romance Story Prompts to Get You Going

October 2, 2017 by Erica 10 Comments

Romance Story Prompts

  This week, I want to continue on with my Romance theme and continue to give you a few more romance story prompts and story starters.

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Jump-Start Your Novel with these 7 Romance Writing Prompts

September 25, 2017 by Erica Leave a Comment

  This week I want to start getting into genre focused writing prompts, and I am going to start with Romance Writing. There is a lot of interest in romance novels, be it reading or writing them, and you must find a way to keep your writing fresh and your readers interested. Throwing different prompts at yourself occasionally is one way of doing this.

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A Writer’s Book of Days: A Writing Craft Book Review

September 23, 2017 by Erica 16 Comments

  A Writer’s Book of Days by Judy Reeves is one of my most favourite writing books, as it covers so many topics in one book. It is a book of inspiration, writing prompts, self-reflection, and journey. But, I love mostly because it always gets me writing again, no matter what, and always brings me up whenever I’m feeling down about my writing, my writing journey, or my writing goals.

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A Few Great Writing Exercises – Resources

September 20, 2017 by Erica Leave a Comment

Great Writing Exercises

  In my search for this week’s writing prompts, I started thinking about my writing exercises post from a couple of weeks back. This post had a lot of positive feedback, so I wanted to follow up and give you another couple of good resources for writing exercises. Recently, I have been favouring a few in particular; the Writer’s Digest website, The Write Practice, and the website, Quora.

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Change One Habit at a Time – To Become a Successful Writer

September 16, 2017 by Erica Leave a Comment

  I’ve recently been reminded of the importance of not starting too many new tasks or habits at once, in order to avoid burnout, and not sticking to any of the newly formed habits. I’m tackling this myself, as I’ve recently committed to writing more each day (have pledged myself to a novel in 3 months),  have started a workout challenge, have changed my diet, and am committed to continually

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7 Writer’s Notebook Prompts to Get You Thinking

September 11, 2017 by Erica Leave a Comment

  My writer’s notebooks are all over the place as well as my notes. I have many, many notebooks. Today I wanted to briefly mention the importance of having a writer’s notebook nearby for ideas, inspiration and writing prompts, exercises, and freewriting. They become your Idea Sourcebook – a very valuable item, indeed. Take care of these notebooks, and check through them regularly for nuggets of source material. They become

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How to Write a Novel in 90 Days – An Update

September 8, 2017 by Erica Leave a Comment

I just wanted to check in and post an update on my test drive of the book Write a Novel in Ten Minutes A Day, as I prepare and write a novel in 3 months or 90 days. I am almost 1 month in and have mostly completed all my preparatory work including character work, setting building, and story and structure development. I am using the 10 Minute Method, as I

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Move Beyond Not Finishing: How to Finish Writing a Story!

September 6, 2017 by Erica 2 Comments

Now, this is something I know a lot about.   Here I am, writing this blog, trying to help other writers. but there a number of things that I still struggle with, each and every day. And one is hitting me especially hard this week, or maybe I’m just noticing it a bit more, because, I now have to answer to you, my readers.   And that is, Finishing Stuff.

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September Writing Prompts – 7 Prompts Inspired from History

September 3, 2017 by Erica Leave a Comment

This week’s list of writing prompts is based on historical events from September. I will list the historical reference and then a prompt to use. I hope you like these September Writing Prompts and hope they provide you with a starting point for your writing this week. I used The History Place as a starting point for researching this weeks list – it’s a great resource for historical inspired writing

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