Erica 
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 that make up a piece of writing.
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 … Read more
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:
This article follows on from my recent post on saving time from shorter workouts with the 8fit Pro App.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 started my T25 training again (BeachBody), but then I saw an ad for an app I hadn’t seen or heard of before.
It’s called 8fit, and promises short – less than 10 minute Tabata workout sessions. It’s a personalized step-by-step guide with HIIT inspired training sessions and full meal planning via the handy phone or tablet app, and what follows is my personal 8fit App Review.
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 hope they lead to some interesting story ideas for you:) For more of the same, check out American Book Review‘s list.