3 Tips for April’s Poem-a-Day Challenge
April is National Poetry Month! Please welcome guest poet Bartholomew Barker with some tips on participating in Writer’s Digest’s Poem-a-Day Challenge. I agree with T. S. Eliot: “April is the cruelest month.” April is National Poetry Month. For the past seven years, Writer’s Digest editor Robert Lee Brewer has presented the April Poem-A-Day Challenge on…Read More
1200 Creative Writing Prompts: Kindle and Paperback Editions on Sale Starting at 99¢
From now through Friday, 3/14/14, 1200 Creative Writing Prompts is on sale. Get the Kindle edition for just 99¢ through Amazon, or pick up the paperback edition at 15% off through CreateSpace with the discount code 7ZLPPK54 (aff links). About 1200 Creative Writing Prompts 1200 Creative Writing Prompts is packed with prompts that will inspire…Read More
From Your Head to the Page: Six Techniques Professional Writers Use to Get Started
Please welcome guest author Dana Leipold with a post about getting started on a piece of writing. How many times have you gotten an idea for a book, but when you sat down to write it you froze or started playing Words with Friends instead? The hardest part of any writing endeavor is getting started….Read More
Goodreads Giveaway: Win a Paperback Edition of 1200 Creative Writing Prompts
1200 Creative Writing Prompts has received its first review, and it’s five stars! “It didn’t take long for this book to blow me away. Right from the start, I was reading through the fiction prompts and I wanted to work on the ideas I saw presented. As someone who writes fiction, I felt like I…Read More
1200 Creative Writing Prompts is Now Available on Amazon!
I’m thrilled to announce that the final book in the Adventures in Writing series is now available on Amazon in paperback and for the Kindle. About the Book 1200 Creative Writing Prompts is packed with prompts that will inspire you to write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction: 500 fiction prompts cover a range of genres:…Read More
Finding Gold In Old Floppies: Books Coming Back From the Dead?
Please welcome guest author Tony Vanderwarker with a post on bringing old drafts back from the dead. One of the things you accumulate as you age is not just years, but places to stash your stuff. My wife and I have filing cabinets in the garage; stacks of plastic cases in the studio; and boxes…Read More
10 Core Practices for Better Writing: Kindle and Paperback Editions on Sale
From now through Friday, 12/6/13, 10 Core Practices for Better Writing is on sale. Get the Kindle edition for just 99¢ through Amazon. The paperback edition is available at 10% off through CreateSpace with the discount code 3G6Y3FFX (aff links). This will be the last time this book goes on sale for the foreseeable future,…Read More
How to Practice Writing Every Day
Please welcome Sylvia Nankivell with a guest post on writing every day. As writers we often wait for that flash of inspiration before we grab a pen and wrestle with the paper in a flurry of blood, sweat and tears. This flash can come at any time: when waiting for a bus, while drinking your…Read More
Nailing Your Novel’s First Chapter
Please welcome guest author Ellen Brock with a post on writing a captivating first chapter for your novel. First chapters are important. Really important. If you’re submitting to agents and editors, your first chapter is not only their first impression of your work, but it’s often their only impression. This is a lot of pressure….Read More
The 5-Minute Guide to Spicing Up Your Prose With Foreign-Language Words
Please welcome author Carmen Amato with a guest post on using foreign-language words. “The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.” – Hippocrates If your book is set in a non-English speaking location or your characters do not speak English, how…Read More
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