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Writing Prompt for Saturday 11/26/16

Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we have been working on character development. Each Sunday, we start on a new prompt theme for the week. Read our opening post for this week’s prompts here. Today is the last day of our character development writing prompts. Conflict sucks. Need I say more? Probably, because why not confront you […]

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Writing Prompt for Friday 11/25/16

Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we are working on character development. Each Sunday, we start on a new prompt theme for the week. Read our opening post for this week’s prompts here. Every time I make a grammar or spelling mistake when writing a blog post or a newsletter, someone inevitably points it out to me.   I’m […]

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Writing Prompt for Thursday 11/24/16

Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we are working on character development. Each Sunday, we start on a new prompt theme for the week. Read our opening post for this week’s prompts here. Gobble. What an appropriate word for today. For this week. For this month. For this year. At the beginning of each year, I […]

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Writing Prompt for Wednesday 11/23/16

Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we are working on character development. Each Sunday, we start on a new prompt theme for the week. Read our opening post for this week’s prompts here. Our society is addicted to news and television, movies, and YouTube. Why do you think that is? Because we like to feel like we […]

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Writing Prompt for Tuesday 11/22/16

Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we are working on character development. Each Sunday, we start on a new prompt theme for the week. Read our opening post for this week’s prompts here. Today’s prompt:  Fiction Writers: Your character is angry about something, and they are about to explode verbally. Let them explode. Write their monologue. Monologues can […]

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Writing Prompt for Monday 11/21/16

Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we are working on character development. Each Sunday, we start on a new prompt theme for the week. Read our opening post for this week’s prompts here. Today’s prompt:  Fiction Writers: Come up with a list of places your character has lived. Write about how each place changed them. What friends did […]

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Writing Prompt for Sunday 11/20/16

Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, let’s work on character development. There seem to be a million different opinions on how to develop a character, a million different character development worksheets available (just type in “character development worksheet” on your favorite search engine and see for yourself) and a million different opinions on how to create […]

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Writing Prompt for Saturday 11/19/16

Writing Prompt for Saturday 11/19/16

Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we continue working on writing setting. Today, we will focus on how you can use setting to create or increase conflict. If you know your character’s backstory, you can put them in places that cause them distress to see how they might react, or you can set a scene in a […]

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Interesting Links for Writers – 11/18/16

Interesting Links for Writers – 11/18/16

Sifting through the many articles out there for writers and picking the most informative for you to read. Enjoy, Nicole Articles Marketing and Publishing Checklists for Writers Ask the Agent: What are the new trends in publishing? How does a literary agency sell its authors? Some Formatting Tips That Will Make Your Copy Editor Happy by Nan Reinhardt […]

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Writing Prompt for Friday 11/18/16

Writing Prompt for Friday 11/18/16

Your Daily Writing Prompt This week, we continue working on writing setting. Today, I want you to show how a character’s internal world affects how they perceive their external environment. Today’s prompt: Write the set-up for two scenes: In the first scene, a character walks outside one day feeling a certain way. In the second scene, that same […]

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