Now, one thing which I am completely guilty of is being slack with keeping up with completing any writing exercises whatsoever and even writing about writing exercises here, on this website. But a recent article called Woodshedding for Writers by Peter Derk has got me thinking about them again, and about how important they are to your writing, and how important it is to continue to practise the individual elements
There are a lot of good journal and personal writing prompt articles and books out there, and this week, I wanted to create my own list of personal writing prompts which I think are thought-provoking, and will hopefully invoke some interesting ideas. Here follows my list of personal writing prompts for the coming week. I hope you like them.
Header Image: Copyright: Image by StockUnlimited I am putting together an article on the importance of technical writing exercises, the importance of which, has recently been reasserted to me. In the meantime, I wanted to put out a list of writing exercises instead of my weekly prompts list. This is one area, in which I’ve definitely fallen behind; honing my writing craft by practising writing exercises, and I want
A great way to save time each day is by having a great meal planning system in place. Today I will walk through – quickly, of course – a few options that you could do well to invest in, to help reduce time wasted on shopping, meal preparation and cooking. I will focus on three aspects, which should improve your daily productivity load: Shopping Meal Preparation Cooking
As I was searching for some interesting historical events to include in this week’s list of August writing prompts, I happened to read about a couple of natural disasters that had occurred in August. This got me thinking, as a few of my favourite writing topics are survival in the face of disaster, and apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic scenarios. This made me want to know what other disasters have occurred in world history within
Within my personal writing vision, I see the ‘5 years in the future Me’; working from home and supplementing my partner’s income, achieving this through my numerous published works 😉 and my website The Busy Writer’s Notebook. So today and every day, I take action with a proven strategy, so my husband can finally work in the same town as me, and be home with his children every day. And that
Over the next 3 months, I will test drive one of my recommended products in order to give you an up to date review and case study of the product and to see how it performs when put to the test of writing a novel in 3 months. I have a few in mind and will proceed to test drive all of them eventually. The first book I want
I know it’s a bit late; it’s now August, but I wanted to conclude my holiday creative writing prompts for July. The following prompts are taken from holidays around the world from the second half of the month of July. I hope they bring you some nuggets of inspired writing. Use these writing prompts to jump start your daily writing session. Set your timer, and write to the prompt for
Trying to free up some extra time and increase my creativity, I’ve decided to invest more time into exercising and getting fitter. It might not seem too applicable, but if you are trying to free up time in your day to write, and you are an avid exerciser, you could be wise in looking at a different training system. There are a few short training systems out there, and I almost
First line prompts are one of the most fun writing prompts techniques out there. It’s fun to see what sort of story you can come up with from someone’s first line, and comparing the results. It’s even better when you don’t know anything about the original novel or story. Today, I present 10 awesome first line prompts from popular and some unpopular novels, as well as a few children’s books. I
