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Category: knockout idea
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Two writing challenges that are HERE!
Starting this Saturday, August 30th, and this Monday, September 1st, are two writing challenges I’ll be taking on, ones I want you to keep in mind for the future… First up is one I’ve MEANT to do for years but always found a way to back out of–okay, it goes the entire Labour Day weekend, and…
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Quotation Inspiration #009: Words, not swords!
The power of words can be amazing: Try this: Write about a cause, a person, an idea you believe in!
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Putting myself out there…writing goals for Oct 2014 to Oct 2015!
Ok, a bit of a heart to heart post today, from one writer to another. Yesterday, I wrote about the benefits of journaling and setting writing goals. Today, I’ll show you what I mean by that. Here are my writing goals for my upcoming writing year: 1. Find a GOOD agent. 2. Write a new…
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Quotation Inspiration #008: Patience can help you grow as a writer!
Here’s another minimalist poster with a message I love (and need to keep in mind personally): It’s always tempting to compare yourself to others and to want the success they’ve had, and to want that RIGHT NOW. I’m guilty of it, too. But one of the best moves I ever made was to start JOURNALING…
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Name drop 2: MICHAEL SLADE!
Just in case you even for a moment thought Lisa Unger would respond and Michael Slade wouldn’t, here’s a post from the Master of Horror himself: That’s what good books and good teachers do, right? Pass on the passion from one generation to the next! By the way, that talk of Slade’s I went to in…
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Quotation Inspiration #007: Dostoyevsky asks a good question for all of you with writer’s block
Dostoyevsky asks a good question for all of you with writer’s block: Try this: Choose a year of your life (by date, grade, year of university, year of marriage) and focus on one event of that year. Use it as a springboard to a new piece of writing!
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Prologue Trick from Lisa Unger and Michael Slade and…
To some editors and many readers that “P” word, “prologue,” is almost a swear word. Piles of readers skip over prologues to get to “the meat” of the story. Some editors HATE them. But…what if your story needs one? Here’s a strategy used by Lisa Unger in Beautiful Lies: October 25th, 1972 There were times…
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Quotation inspiration #006: Keep on keepin’ on–Einstein!
Here’s a bit of encouragement to keep doing what you’re doing–push through those blocks: Try this: An oldie, but a goodie: What ELSE is life like?
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Quotation Inspiration #004: Good advice from Oscar Wilde
Try this: Why not try a piece of writing where someone can NOT take this advice? Someone who tries their best to be anyone or anything else and finds problem after problem because of it . . .
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Quotation Inspiration #003: Decision making by Emerson
Sometimes making the choice to do something is the toughest. Once you’ve done that… KEEP WRITING! FINISH THAT NOVEL, SHORT STORY, POEM…