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7 Wondrous First Line Writing Prompts

May 31, 2017 by Erica Leave a Comment

  Recently, I’ve really enjoyed using the first line of various novels as starting points for my writing prompts, so I decided to compile this list of 7 wondrous first line writing prompts.

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7 Days of Prompts Inspired by Writing Prompts Apps

May 21, 2017 by Erica Leave a Comment

Creative Writing App

    This week’s prompts are sourced from three creative writing apps that I have on my iPhone. I have numerous writing apps, however, I really only tend to use one, “The Brainstormer” and occasionally “Writing Prompts” and “Ideas for Writing”. All of these apps give me keyword prompts to start writing from, which is one of my favourite prompt styles. It’s fun to see what your mind comes up

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Why you should be Freewriting Daily

May 18, 2017 by Erica Leave a Comment

Freewriting

  I wanted to expand more on freewriting, as I only touched on it briefly in a recent blog on Freewriting and Writing Prompts for Writer’s Block, and I believe it is an extremely useful tool, that is most likely being under-utilised, by many busy writers. I want to cover in more depth; what Freewriting really entails and what the benefits are of doing it daily.

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7 Days of Fun Writing Prompts

May 14, 2017 by Erica Leave a Comment

Writing Prompts

  Another short post today, as I wanted to quickly get out a list of writing prompts for the week, as I mentioned in a recent post about Creating a Daily Writing Habit.   I want to provide a list of writing prompts for each week from here on out, to help you on your commitment to daily writing, and help you to fulfil that urge to write.   Even

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Creating a Daily Writing Habit

May 9, 2017 by Erica Leave a Comment

Writing Daily

  I started my daily writing habit a week and a half ago with my seven days of prompts, and have since kept it going (minus two overwhelming days, where I needed to take a day nap instead:/), so I wanted to post an update, and give myself and you, a new goal or challenge.                          Photo by Kaboompics  

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How to use Freewriting and Writing Prompts for Writer’s Block

April 27, 2017 by Erica 4 Comments

Writer's Block

  Writer’s block. Now that’s a scary phrase. And one I’ve heard many times, read about over and over again, and experienced on numerous occasions.   I believe I even have it right now. And today, I am going to set a challenge and make a promise to myself to get through this block, with the use of freewriting and writing prompts. But I’ll get to that later. First, let’s

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