Writing prompt! Large family gatherings can be stressful. Write a short story about a wedding or funeral, and throw a kink in the plans. Use the photo above as a starting point. Make a minor problem spiral out of control. Or, include one or more of the following characters: A drunk relative making a speech … More Fiction Writing Prompt: Weddings and Funerals
The Help by Kathryn Stockett is the third book in my personal challenge to read and review 12 books in 12 months. You can see the rules I’m following for this challenge in a previous post, here. To read my first review, click here. In this review series, I will do my best to avoid major spoilers. I … More Book Review: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is the second book in my personal challenge to read and review 12 books in 12 months. You can see the rules I’m following for this challenge in a previous post, here. To read my first review, click here. In this review series, I will do my best to avoid … More Book Review: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
I really want to read more. I used to be a chain reader. (It’s like a chain smoker, but with books.) I never finished a book without a new one to start, and I always spent most of my free time reading rather than doing other things. That’s great and everything, but I’m an adult … More New Series: Monthly Book Reviews
Now that my poetry challenge is over, I have a lot of revision to do. It’s time to sort through everything I wrote and see what’s going to turn into something worth submitting for publication. I also have more revision to do for that short story I mentioned in a previous post. Since I’ve got … More 5 Revision Tips
This weekend, I’ve been getting ready to submit some short stories and poems I wrote for college in the hopes of getting them published. In the process of doing this, I opened up a story that had been rejected a couple of times over six months ago to reread it, and had a big realization: it … More Why Did I Submit This? Time to Revise Again
I don’t like to pigeonhole myself too much when it comes to genre. I studied creative writing in college (I’m a relatively recent grad), and I came into my college writing program knowing I enjoyed both fiction and poetry. I refused to identify myself as a writer of just one of them even though there … More Writing in Different Genres
NANOWRIMO, which is short for National Novel Writing Month, is November. The goal? Write 50,000 words in 1 month that can then be revised into a complete novel later on. Have I tried it? Twice. Have I “won” (finished)? Not yet. I recently had a conversation on Facebook with a former classmate on this: November … More NANOWRIMO Prep
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