37 days ago by Shari Lopatin

I’ve been on a creative binge lately. And for the New Year, I want to help inspire you, too! I’ve been reading books and writing stories about some of the deepest, most profound themes I know. You know, those deep, dark ideas that give a story its umph. That inspire us to reconsider our own lives. I ...

Shari Lopatin: Rogue Writer - sharilopatin.com · 18 references

37 days ago by helsinkibaby

So my new year's resolution, which I never make because I never keep them, was to write every day, at least 100 words. I kept it low on purpose because I didn't want to set myself up for any more failure than I could handle, and so far I've managed to write something every day and have gone over the ...

The Band Gazebo - helsinkibaby.livejournal.com · 19 references

37 days ago by Karen Pokras Toz

I’ll admit it – I am one of those people who pigs out from Thanksgiving though New Years. It’s okay though because starting January 1st ... 6th , I’ll start dieting and exercising. You know – "New Year... New You" and all that business. But in 2010, I did make a resolution that changed my life. For ...

Karen Pokras Toz - kptoz.blogspot.com · 5 references

37 days ago by dianemackinnon

My friend and mentor, Martha Beck, talks about goal setting in one of her books ( Find Your Own North Star). She calls her goals WIGs: Wildly Improbable Goals. By WIGs, she means goals that are scary-exciting. The ones that feel almost impossible, but wow, if one of them happened, wouldn’t that be c ...

Live to Write - Write to Live - nhwn.wordpress.com · Rank: 50,359 · 33 references

37 days ago by AstroGirl

I desperately need to get some creative juices flowing. To this end, I am once again offering up free ficlets to the first, let's say, five respondents. This time, I'll ask you to suggest three prompts per person, preferably in fandoms I'm familiar with, and I'll pick one each and write something pr ...

Electromagnetic Candy - astrogirl2.livejournal.com · 86 references

37 days ago by jdtharp

According to the handy little section on metrics that WordPress provides, I’ve been plugging away here for 24 months now. The reason I bring that up is that sometime in the last day or two, the page passed the 10,000 visitor mark. As always on these little occasions, I wanted to say thanks to everyo ...

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37 days ago by Ut Pictura Poesis

For when I get home from work tonight. All characters played over two nearly two decades acceptable. Comment with a pair of characters (one has to be mine) and I'll give you ramble type paragraph from my character's POV on how they views yours.

Unconditional Love - wanderlustlover.livejournal.com · 45 references

37 days ago by tjs9261

Read more about Roxie here. And for the “Duffy Dog of the Week” click here.

Tom Schreck - tomschreck.wordpress.com · 30 references

37 days ago by Clint

How do you approach a first draft? Is it better to write carefully and aim for a quality draft, or to throw everything you’ve got at it and clear out the chaff during revisions? The second method is the only thing that’s ever worked for me. Whenever I sit down with a clear-cut, nearly-finished idea ...

Putting Words After Other ... - clintturpen.com · 1 reference

37 days ago by johnlmalone

Do you know something? For the last seven years I’ve been cruising, creatively, that is, working within my comfort zone: writing poems for kids and adults. The little censor especially for children has been at work . I can say I have not pushed the envelope. It’s the same ol’ same ol’. I was getting ...

John Malone's Blog - johnlmalone.wordpress.com · 2 references