101 Creative Writing Exercises – Kindle Edition on Sale for 99 Cents
101 Creative Writing Exercises
Do you have a Kindle or smart phone? If so, you can get a copy of my book, 101 Creative Writing Exercises for just 99¢ now through Sunday 4/29.
The paperback is also on sale for just $5.99.
About 101 Creative Writing Exercises
101 Creative Writing Exercises takes you on an adventure through the world of writing.
You’ll experiment with fiction, poetry, journaling, blogging, and more. Each exercise imparts literary terms or writing techniques, so you’ll learn about the craft of writing as you make your way through the book.
In any craft or career, practice is essential. Surely, by now you’ve heard that it takes 10,000 hours to become a master at any craft. That means you’ll spend 10,000 hours writing before your working at the expert level. Writing exercises are an excellent way to gain practice and practical experience.
These exercises are designed to teach you about writing and to give you plenty of practice, but they will also inspire you. If you’ve ever struggled with having too many ideas, not enough ideas, or simply trying to find the right idea, then you know how vital inspiration can be. This book is packed with it.
Every exercise also includes a variation, so you get double for your money.
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Adrienne Rich (1929 – 2012)
Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012)
“The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.” ― Adrienne Rich
Last week, the brilliant poet and pioneering feminist Adrienne Rich passed away. The world has lost a profound voice, but Adrienne’s poetry and prose will certainly live on.
I first read Adrienne’s poetry in a class on women writers, which was easily my favorite literature course during college. We read “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” as one of our assignments, and I fell in love with the poem. In fact, it was one of the first poems that I truly studied, reading it over and over to absorb every nuance.
The poem does exactly what I think poetry is supposed to do: it paints a picture, it’s rich with emotion, it uses symbolism and metaphor, and it carries a subtle but deeply meaningful message. It makes you think. It invites you to read it aloud and to read it again. To this day, it remains one of my all-time favorite poems.
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” is presented in full (on page two) of the New York Times obituary: “A Poet of Unswerving Vision at the Forefront of Feminism.”
Remembering Adrienne Rich
The Los Angeles Times also published an obituary highlighting Adrienne Rich’s contributions and accomplishments:
She came of age during the social upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and was best known as an advocate of women’s rights, which she wrote about in both her poetry and prose. But she also wrote passionate antiwar poetry and took up the causes of the marginalized and underprivileged. (from the Los Angeles Times obituary: “Adrienne Rich dies at 82; feminist poet and essayist“)
The Poetry Foundation has assembled articles and essays commemorating Adrienne Rich’s life and legacy: “Remembrances of Adrienne Rich Abound.”
New Verse News has published a poem by Bill Sullivan, which is simply titled “Adrienne Rich (1929-2012).”
Adrienne’s Language
“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.” ― Adrienne Rich
To celebrate Adrienne Rich’s life and legacy, I thought I’d share a poem that I wrote many years ago, shortly after I first discovered her work. This was for a class assignment in which we were asked to write a creative response to a poem of our choosing. I chose “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” and wrote a response in the voice of Aunt Jennifer.
Adrienne’s Language
A Creative Response to “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich
Adrienne’s language settles across the page
Black symbols of her thoughts embedded,
engraved in deliberate books. Unafraid
of readers’ mindful eyes. Her lovely lullabies
sing and cry. Brave
niece – she grips the pen in hand,
scrawling the notions of life and
the images of living. Her heart lay
open for all to see, for me, my tigers.
Her words set the scene: tales alive
and breathing. Recount the memory, recount.
Counting stitches of her stories – her own
tapestries, done up in Adrienne’s language.
By Melissa Donovan
“You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.” ― Adrienne Rich
*All quotes are from Goodreads
Winners Announced for the Haiku and Six-Word-Story Contest
101 Creative Writing Exercises
I’m pleased to announce that three winners have been selected for Writing Forward‘s first contest.
To enter the contest, participants were required write either a haiku or a six-word story and share their entry as a comment on the contest post.
There were some lovely poems and stories, and I encourage you to check them out.
Winners were selected with a random number generator and will each receive one copy (Kindle or paperback — winners’ choice) of my recently published book, 101 Creative Writing Exercises.
All of the winners have been sent emails and will need to claim their prizes by responding to claim their prizes. If you are a winner and did not receive your winning email notification, then check your spam filter or email me directly.
The Winners
Danielle of D’s Poetry Corner was entrant number 6 and entered the following haiku:
Daylight Savings Time
Springing Forward, We Forgot
How We Needed Sleep
Carol Fillmore was entrant number 10 and entered the following haiku:
Ideas spawning
leaping rollicking in a
stream of consciousness
Marlon of ShadowCrowX (YouTube channel) was entrant number 39 and entered the following haiku:
Tranquility found
Within the depths of music
Brings joy to silence
Congratulations to all of the winners and to everyone who wrote wonderful haiku and stories and shared them with us.
About 101 Creative Writing Exercises
101 Creative Writing Exercises takes you on an adventure through the world of creative writing. Explore different forms and genres by experimenting with fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Discover effective writing concepts, tools, and techniques. Create projects you can publish. Ideal for new and experienced writers alike, this book will enlighten and inspire you with exciting new ideas.
Win a Free Copy of 101 Creative Writing Exercises!
Win a free copy!
Have you been thinking about picking up a copy of 101 Creative Writing Exercises but haven’t gotten around to it yet?
Here’s your chance to get one for free.
It’s Writing Forward’s first official contest, and all you have to do to enter is write a haiku.
Three lucky winners will each get one copy (Kindle or paperback — winners’ choice) of my recently published book, 101 Creative Writing Exercises.
About the Book
101 Creative Writing Exercises takes you on an adventure through the world of creative writing. Explore different forms and genres by experimenting with fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Discover effective writing concepts, tools, and techniques. Create projects you can publish. Ideal for new and experienced writers alike, this book will enlighten and inspire you with exciting new ideas.
The Rules
- To enter, write a haiku and leave it as a comment on this post. As an alternative, you can write a six-word story.
- When you fill out the comment form, make sure you enter a valid email address where I can reach you (your email address will not be published; only I can see it).
- One entry per person.
- In order to enter, you must be a resident of the U.S. or Canada.
That’s it! Easy as pie.
The contest will run for one week, so I’ll close the comments on this post at midnight Monday, March 19. Winners will be drawn using a random number generator and will be announced here and contacted privately by email. Winners who choose to receive a paperback copy of 101 Creative Writing Exercises will need to provide either an Amazon account or shipping address. Prizes will ship out before March 31st.
Good luck, and happy writing!
101 Creative Writing Exercises: Now Available on Amazon
Are you ready for an adventure?
101 Creative Writing Exercises takes you on an exciting journey through the world of creative writing.
You’ll explore different forms and genres by experimenting with fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. You’ll discover effective writing tools and techniques. And you’ll create projects that you can submit and publish.
Ideal for new and experienced writers alike, this book will enlighten and inspire you with fresh ideas.
101 Creative Writing Exercises
You’ll learn a lot by simply reading these exercises, which impart writing concepts as well as literary and storytelling devices.
Each chapter focuses on a different form or subject: freewriting, journaling and memoir, fiction and storytelling, form poetry and free verse, article and blog writing, people and characters, and dialogue are all covered.
The exercises in this book are designed to give you plenty of writing practice while inspiring practical ideas for your writing projects. Let the adventure begin!
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Censorship Update: Writers Beware!
All over the internet, the same message is being repeated over and over: we will not be censored.
Last month, I published a post explaining how SOPA, PIPA, and other censorship initiatives affect writers. Put simply, censorship is bad for writers. In fact, it’s terrible. Free speech is essential to anyone who writes or creates art.
This month, on January 24, the U.S. Senate will meet to take a closer look at PIPA. There are plenty of senators who have already stated support for the bill, many of whom have received significant campaign funding from the very entities that are pushing bills like SOPA and PIPA.
The Internet Goes on Strike
But the Internet isn’t having it. Webmasters, bloggers, Tumblrs, Tweeters, and Redditors are banding together to fight against these bills. Ordinary citizens of the web are expressing opposition to censorship in creative ways: making art, censoring their avatars and websites, calling their senators and representatives, signing petitions, and organizing a coordinated strike.
The big players are lining up too. WordPress and Creative Commons have recently issued official statements opposing these bills. Other opponents of the bills include Mozilla, Facebook, Ebay, Twitter, Tumblr, and Google.
Tomorrow, on January 18, the Internet will go on strike. Participating websites will essentially shut down and replace their content with information about these bills. The goal of the strike is to show opposition to the bills but more importantly to inform the public and encourage people to take action.
Reddit, Cheezburger Network, Boing Boing, and Wikipedia have all announced that they will join the strike. The confirmed list of participants is big and growing fast. It’s available at sopastrike.com.
On social media sites, especially Twitter, there is a constant stream of remarks on these issues with a good chunk of those tweets pleading with sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to participate in the strike in some way. Their participation could tip the scales.
Lack of Media Coverage
One of the biggest problems with SOPA and PIPA is that most people aren’t aware that the bills are being considered. Prime time television news coverage on SOPA and PIPA has been lacking (which isn’t surprising, considering many of those networks are owned by the very corporations that are trying to pass the bills).
So, if everybody’s favorite websites simultaneously go dark and offer one common message and call to action, those Senators will get a whole lot of phone calls and emails. Some say that by striking for mere minutes, Facebook alone could get the bill killed by sending a massive number of users to flood politicians with calls and emails.
What You Can Do
There are some quick and easy steps you can take to actively oppose SOPA and PIPA:
- Visit AmericanCensorship.org. The site has quick links that U.S. citizens can can use to call senators, email representatives, and let them know that you’re a voter and/or citizen who opposes SOPA and PIPA. The site also offers actions that non-U.S. citizens can take. Censorship and blacklisting in the U.S. will affect websites worldwide.
- Got a WordPress website? Get the Stop SOPA Ribbon. Writing Forward is proudly displaying it in the upper right-hand corner. It took less than two minutes to install. There are several other anti-censorship plugins available.
- Join the SOPA Strike tomorrow, January 18.
- Use Twitter to express your opposition with hashtags: #SOPA, #PIPA, #SOPASTRIKE, and #PIPABlackout. Tip: use one hashtag per tweet.
- Put a SOPA badge on your social media profiles. Then, tweet about it. Talk about it. Let the world know that censorship is wrong and you’re fighting against it.
Prepare for the Long Haul
My gut tells me this fight is just beginning. This isn’t the first time the U.S. government or big businesses have attempted to take control of the Internet or pass censorship legislation and it won’t be the last. As a copyright holder and content creator, I am concerned about copyright theft and want to see online piracy curbed but not at the cost of blacklisting or censorship, especially since most objective legal experts agree that SOPA and PIPA give the government and big corporations undue power while putting free speech at risk. These experts have also stressed that the bills do absolutely nothing to stop piracy because there are glaring loopholes that these pirates can easily use.
I’m also not crazy about taking time away from Writing Forward’s focus, which is, of course, creative writing. But censorship is specifically dangerous to writers and artists, and in today’s market, we writers need the Internet as it has become the foremost tool in distributing, marketing, and promoting written works. I feel strongly that this issue is critical and of great concern to writers, so I hope you will join me in standing against any attempt at censorship or internet blacklisting.
And as always, I hope you keep writing.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ― Benjamin Franklin
Note: while most of the content on Writing Forward is copyrighted with all rights reserved to the author, the text in this article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. You are free to share and distribute, print and republish this text.
Writing Forward’s Greatest Hits of 2011
Writing Forward’s Greatest Hits of 2011.
The end of the year is a good time to look back and reflect on the past twelve months. What did we accomplish? What could we have done better? How can we improve next year? And most importantly, what do our readers want?
Back in the early days of Writing Forward, I used to gather up my end-of-the-year stats and let readers know which articles were the most popular. Somewhere along the line, I drifted away from that tradition. I decided to bring it back this year, partially because I myself am curious but also because I think it’s useful to know what interests and engages other writers. Here’s what I learned:
Social Media Loves Creative Writing
One of the greatest gifts that the Internet has given us is the ability to connect with other people. On Facebook, we can connect with friends and family. On LinkedIn, we can connect with other professionals. Twitter allows us to find people who have shared interests. And discovery engines like StumbleUpon or user-generated news sites like Reddit make it easy for us to share relevant, interesting news and information.
All of these tools are excellent for writers because they offer us a way to interact with other writers and to share our writing with the world.
Writing Forward benefitted from all of these social media sites and many more. I am fairly active on Twitter and post every article on Facebook, so I was surprised to learn that StumbleUpon brought in the most readers. Thanks for Stumbling, you guys!
One of the most popular posts on Twitter wasn’t even published here at Writing Forward. It was a guest post I wrote for The Top Ten Blog: “The Top Ten Ways to Spice up Your Writing.” Months later, the tweets and retweets just keep coming.
However, a more recent post, titled “Writers, Censorship, and SOPA” also got a lot of traction and helped me connect with a few dozen other writers and anti-censorship activists on Twitter. I’m especially glad that people embraced this article because I think it’s critical for writers to not only be aware of censorship but to oppose it vehemently.
I found out that Facebook offers some new tools to help us understand how our content is performing. Their stats were only available back through July, but the findings were interesting.
- A rather old post titled “Environmentally Friendly Writing Tips” had the greatest reach (which means it had the most exposure).
- However, the posts “10 Tips for Writing a Book” and “Making Time to Practice Writing Every Day” engaged the most people and got them talking.
- Finally, an oldie but a goodie, and one of Writing Forward’s most-read and most-shared posts of all time, “The 22 Best Writing Tips Ever” went the most viral.
Hits and Comments
I always find it interesting to see which posts get the most comments. That tells me that the posts sparked ideas or questions. Interestingly, the post with the most comments of 2011 also has the most comments of all time, and it was the single most-visited post on this site. The overall popularity of “25 Creative Writing Prompts” tells me that writers want to write. They’re looking for ideas and inspiration, and that’s a good thing.
Finally, I’ll leave you with the top five posts of the year. If you missed them the first time around, I hope you’ll enjoy them now.
- As mentioned, 25 Creative Writing Prompts got the most comments, but it also got the most visits!
- The poets came out and supported “Three Poetry Writing Exercises.”
- People are looking for “Ideas for Creative Writing Projects and Practices.”
- Writers still care about grammar, spelling, and punctuation: “How to Abuse and Neglect Punctuation Marks.”
- Writers also enjoyed a little navel-gazing with “Reflective Journal Writing.”
Thank You
I want thank everyone who visited, subscribed, tweeted, liked us on Facebook, commented, and otherwise engaged with Writing Forward. I hope to bring you lots of great creative writing tips and ideas in 2012 and I hope that next year, you’ll keep writing.
Happy New Year!
Public Service Announcement: Writers, Censorship, and SOPA
Censorship is not good for anybody but it’s especially bad for writers.
There is nothing that will cause more harm to a writer’s spirit, wreak more havoc on a writer’s heart, or do more damage to a writer’s livelihood than censorship.
Most writers believe they are safe from censorship. Whatever’s being censored usually affects only a small portion of writers and artists. However, once the government has the power to censor, there’s no way to tell what they will censor next. You might look at the current administration and feel they wouldn’t censor your work. But who will be in that administration next year? In 2016? In 2020?
Oddly, even in this day and age, there are people who would like nothing more than the power to censor what other people read. For example, there was actually a movement to ban Harry Potter from school libraries. Anything controversial is a prime target for censorship: stories that contain sex, drugs, cursing, and violence. But sometimes, what most of us would consider rather innocent comes under fire: a book featuring a single parent is accused of undermining family values. It sounds ridiculous, but even a book about censorship, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, was banned — for containing a swear word, but the irony is deep and chilling.
There is no telling what the censors will go after once they have the power.
There is something in every piece of writing that can be twisted and contorted and declared dangerous or offensive.
Understanding SOPA and PIPA and How They Affect Writers
Luckily, things are not that dismal yet (unless you live in China, where they have banned time travel stories). Right now, nobody’s trying to literally censor literature in the United States (friends from abroad, please bear with us). But they are trying to censor the Internet. The government and its campaign financiers are working to pass a bill that will give them the power to determine what’s fit for consumption online. And they are doing it right now, this week, today.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA or H.R. 3261) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA or S.968) are presented as legislation designed to stop online piracy of copyrighted works. Sounds good, right? As a content creator and copyright holder, I too would like to put a stop to theft and illegal redistribution of copyrighted material.
The problem is that SOPA and PIPA do very little to actually prevent online piracy. In fact, the loopholes are glaring (pirates will use DNS numbers instead of domain names). However, these bills do a lot to give the government and big corporations the power to block, ban, and censor websites. And the fallout could be massive. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Tumblr could shut down. Ad servers (like Google Adsense), hosting providers, and merchant services (like PayPal) will be affected (the costs of policing the web could be so massive that these companies will be forced to shut down). Ordinary people with websites and blogs could be criminalized, fined, and jailed.
What Does This Mean for Writers?
Considering the recent surge in self-publishing, the rise in ebook sales, decline in print book sales, the raging popularity of social media sites for promoting authors’ work, it’s fairly obvious that writers need a free Internet, a place where we can create and conduct business without worrying that we might offend somebody who has the power to shut us down.
So, we have to be diligent in staying informed about internet censorship and doing what we can to prevent it.
The video below explains PIPA better than I can (without going into a total rage). After the video, I’ve posted a few useful links with more information and insight on SOPA. Plus, I’ve listed a few quick and easy actions you can take to fight against censorship.
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
More Information on SOPA and PIPA:
I know you’re all busy. The holidays are upon us and there’s a lot do: shopping, party planning, year-end finances, reviewing goals, balancing a day job with your writing projects, and editing your NaNoWriMo book. My job as editor of Writing Forward is to encourage you to write, and I always do. But today, I urge you to take a break from your writing to ensure that you remain free to continue it. Surely, you can spare a few minutes to understand how SOPA would destroy the security and freedom of the Internet and how it could literally silence the voices of millions of writers.
- The people who built the internet don’t like SOPA and wrote an open letter to Congress to express their opposition.
- One writer compares SOPA to a nightmare.
- The big-money businesses fight over SOPA even though it will do most damage to regular people, especially those who make a living via the Internet.
- On Twitter, the hashtag #SOPA reveals massive opposition to the bill (and zero support for it).
- Open Congress presents a list of supporters and opponents, and tells you how money is changing hands.
What You Can Do
I don’t expect you guys to do anything I haven’t done myself. I’ll be frank: censorship terrifies me. I have always believed that once the government starts censoring, they will never stop. If you give them the power to censor people, they will use it and they will abuse it. In a very short time, censorship will evolve into full-on suppression. Don’t be silenced. We are writers, and we need our voices.
- Talk to people about it. Mainstream media has completely failed to report on SOPA and PIPA (which is another issue in itself), so most people don’t even know about it! The simple act of raising awareness can have a profound effect.
- Share it on Twitter and Facebook. Express your opposition (on Twitter, make sure you use the hashtag #SOPA). Post the video above and share links to articles that provide information and opportunities to take action.
- In a few minutes, on a single site, americancensorship.org, you can call your representatives, sign a petition, email Congress, receive news updates about SOPA and censorship, and engage in a variety of other actions.
- If the bill passes Congress, it goes to the President and he has the power to veto it. Use an easy online form to urge the President to oppose censorship in America.
- Fight for the Future (producers of the video above) also has a form you can fill out to express your opposition to Congress.
- The pen is mightier than the sword. Write blog posts, articles, and essays about this issue. You are writers! Use your words to fight the good fight.
“If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Finally, I invite all of you to use the comments section below to share any content that opposes censorship. I’d love to build a repository of articles, photos, cartoons, poems, and quotes expressing the danger of censorship and SOPA. Also, talk about why censorship is dangerous and tell us what you’re doing to stop it. Please note that all first-time comments are held in moderation until I can approve them.
Freedom is something that people have to fight for. Keep fighting.
Note: while most of the content on Writing Forward is copyrighted with all rights reserved to the author, the text in this article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. You are free to share and distribute, print and republish this text.
Anne McCaffrey (1926 – 2011)
Anne McCaffrey (1926 – 2011)
We all know that our friends and family influence and shape our lives every day. But every so often, someone we’ve never met changes the entire course of our lives.
Anne McCaffrey changed mine.
I was my early twenties when I picked up a copy of one of Anne’s Dragonriders of Pern novels. I took the book home, gulped it down, and discovered three things.
Anne McCaffrey made me realize that I wanted to be a writer. I had been writing for years. But writing was not a dream or ambition for me. It was just something I did — a compulsion rather than a desire. I had always figured I would write a book one day. But after reading my first Pern novel, my relationship with writing shifted. It became something in which I wanted to excel rather than a passive hobby.
The Pern series showed me that I wanted to write science fiction and fantasy. I have always read widely across the genres but when I read Pern, I suddenly realized that I had always had a particular affinity for science fiction and fantasy stories. I guess I had kind of a geek awakening. And it was good.
I wanted to read all the other books in the Dragonriders of Pern series, immediately. These were the days before online shopping, so I had to trawl through used bookstores to complete my adventure, and what an adventure it was. I fell in love with the Masterharper of Pern. I was wildly impressed with McCaffrey’s fantastical concepts of going between and Thread – Thread! It was brilliant!
The Pern novels were fantastical but rooted in science. Anne McCaffrey’s stories took me through the spectrum of human emotion. The stories were funny and sad, simple and philosophical, full of equal parts tragedy and triumph. By taking me off this world, they helped me understand it better. Through Anne’s vision, I realized the human condition. Plus, the entire series was packed with spaceships and dragons! There was a wizardly character and a ton of musicians. My kind of fantasy world.
Saying Goodbye
On Tuesday, November 22, 20011, I popped onto Twitter and when I saw “Anne McCaffrey” listed in the trending topics, my heart sank. I knew what it meant, and a quick click confirmed that she had left this world. I was heartened, however, in reading tweets from other admirers of Anne’s work. I knew that I was not alone in my mourning and that people all around the world were celebrating Anne’s life and the tremendous legacy that she leaves.
Anne McCaffrey has been one of the guiding lights on the path of my life and I am wholly grateful to her. And now, the dragons have gone between and somewhere, she is soaring through the skies with them. May she rest in peace.
-Melissa Donovan
Please feel free to use the comments section to share your memories of Anne McCaffrey and her work and to celebrate her life.
Writing Forward Turns Four Years Old!
Happy Fourth Birthday to Writing Forward
Earlier this month, Writing Forward turned four years old.
Every year around this time, I reflect on the many wonderful people I’ve met and experiences I’ve had through this blog.
I believe that we writers are extremely lucky to be living in this particular era. The Internet has made it easier than ever for us to build platforms and audiences and to self-publish our work. But what’s most wonderful is that we are easily able to connect with other writers.
Writing Forward has been a vehicle through which I’ve discovered writers and their work, and that is something I never could have predicted four years ago when I launched this blog as part of a business plan.
While I’m proud of this site and all it has enabled me to accomplish, I feel that the anniversary of Writing Forward is really a tribute to its readers, friends, and fans. I want to extend my deepest gratitude to anyone who has visited this site; from loyal subscribers to random passers-by, from quiet lurkers to prolific commenters, all of you have made Writing Forward what it is today. Without you, I never would have reached this exciting milestone.
Thank you, and keep writing!
Forthcoming Book: 101 Creative Writing Exercises
As the approach of Writing Forward’s four-year anniversary loomed, I decided that it was time to write a book for this site. My goal was to put together a useful but fun book that was engaging and designed to help writers explore the possibilities in the world of creative writing.
Well, I was overwhelmed with ideas and instead of coming up with a single book idea, I developed a plan for a series of writing-related books. The series is titled Adventures in Writing and will include books packed with creative writing exercises, prompts, and tips for writers.
The first book is dubbed 101 Creative Writing Exercises, and it’s almost done! I expect to publish it sometime in October. Next week, I’ll post the first excerpt from the book.
Writing Forward around the Web!
In the past few weeks, I’ve had the honor of guest posting on some wonderful blogs:
The Bookshelf Muse: To Plot or Not to Plot (8/15/11)
The Top Ten Blog: The Top Ten Ways to Spice Up Your Writing (7/28/11)
The Creative Penn: The Five Biggest Mistakes Writers Make on Their Websites (7/25/11)
I was also honored to be interviewed by two fine bloggers. You can check out the interviews below:
Laura Stanfill: Interview: Melissa Donovan (9/5/11)
Interview at Journal in a Box: Who Journals? (8/29/11)
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