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You have a story to tell. Go and tell it. Don’t use excuses. Don’t find reasons to not write. Don’t let writer’s block have a second of your time. Go and write. Write fast. Write badly. Make it incoherent. You can fix it all in revision. via Just Get The Damn Words Down — Professional Amateur… Continue reading Just Get The Damn Words Down — Professional Amateur Writers

As I focus on my third novel in the “Blue Star Series” I find that I am curating more blog posts than I am writing. This is because there are so many posts out there. For me, there are few posts better than those which help you find inspiration, or dig deeper into the world […]… Continue reading What studying literature teaches us about writing novels — Uninspired Writers — Sarah Cathey

So you’ve spend a lot of time writing and revising a story. You’re getting to a point where it’s in pretty good shape. Maybe you’ve had some beta readers look through all or part of it. Maybe you’ve workshopped it. Before you release it upon the world (or upon literary agents), consider pausing for a […]… Continue reading Sensitivity readings: An essential part of writing — “Extraordinary Eruptions of Information”

With help from the #WritescastChat community, guest co-host Ekta Garg and r.r. campbell discuss the intersection of inner conflict and theme. Don your safety goggles, folks, because the metaphor machine is in high gear for this one! via Novel Approaches 027 – Inner Conflict and Theme — The Writescast Network

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.” ~ Meg Cabot via ✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Wondering About Your Next Story? — A Great Day To Be Alive

Let’s be clear – I’m not casting the first stone. The first draft of this was called ‘Nine Ways I Have Written Badly’. I am certainly not without sin. And as they say in therapy groups, ‘If you spot it, you’ve got it.’ Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa, etcetera. Pride Pride (as any good […] via… Continue reading The Seven Deadly Sins of Writing — tobylitt

Sleep is essential. Don’t take this post too seriously. Go to bed! via 10 Reasons Most Writers Are (At Least a Little) Sleep-Deprived — Novelty Revisions

Originally posted on Legends of Windemere: Parts of a Ship Ever now and then, I have my characters travel on a ship. Started in Prodigy of Rainbow Tower and it happened at least once in War of Nytefall. The reason is because you can’t always stay on land when traveling. You can come across a… Continue reading Using Ships in Fiction — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog

This quick exercise will teach you the basics of turning your ideas into beautiful images your readers and appreciate and understand. If you are having a hard time understanding how to relate separate topics in your own book, you aren’t alone. Lots of writers have difficulty making sense of bumblebee troops being armed with insecticide […]… Continue reading How To Blend Elements of Speculation Together — Aeonar Grey

In his fiction column from the January 1990 issue of Writer’s Digest, author Lawrence Block explores the reality behind the saying, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” Amy Jones A couple of years ago, two friends of mine, a man and woman I’d known for most of a decade, made the papers. They did so in […]… Continue reading Stop Making Sense: Explaining Some Fiction Rules of Logic — L.A. Kennedy