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November 18, 2014
Follow this river for the writing prompt today - describe where...
Follow this river for the writing prompt today - describe where it goes and who you, or a character, meet along the way. Write 500 words
November 12, 2014
Wordless Wednesday
Time to get writing…
November 11, 2014
Happily signed the full set for someone’s birthday....
Happily signed the full set for someone’s birthday. Haven’t lined them all up like this before! Thanks hccfrenzy
November 10, 2014
5 Tips for Creating Metaphors (Which Are Like Similes)
Aaaah, metaphors: they can be a writer’s best friend, or worst enemy (see what I did there?). When done well, they can add a whole other dimension to your writing. But you can’t necessarily just compare sadness to road kill and be on your merry way. Metaphor creation is a…
November 8, 2014
hccfrenzy:
Over the past year or so, a bunch of our favourite...
Over the past year or so, a bunch of our favourite YA authors have offered writing tips for aspiring authors. We’ve compiled them in one super-handy post for all of you participating in NaNoWriMo!
How To Defeat Writer’s Block and The Wall of Blaaaaargh by sarabenincasa
Five Tips For Reading Like A Writer by alicekuipersauthor
Tips for Aspiring Writers by lauren-oliver
Tips On Writing The Last Book in a Series by cjredwine
Ten Coffee Orders For Different Sorts of Writing Days by realrobynschneider
Tips For Fantasy World Building by sararaasch
Writing in Second Person by Anna Carey
Also! Our editors at HarperCollins Canada offered their writing tips for aspiring authors over at The Savvy Reader.
We hope these help you out over the next month (and we’ll keep adding tips to this post!). Good luck to everyone taking part in NaNoWriMo!
November 7, 2014
Use this image (from mnn) to inspire your 1667 words today...
Use this image (from mnn) to inspire your 1667 words today #Nanowrimo writers… or those of you writing without Nanowrimo, use the image to describe a place before and after something terrible has happened to help you work on description this weekend. Try to write as much as you can…
November 5, 2014
If it feels difficult to write another 1667 words today...
If it feels difficult to write another 1667 words today #nanowrimo , remember you earn the good days with lots of hard work. You can do it!
November 4, 2014
Writing Prompt
Writing prompt: “When you get home from vacation, you open your suitcase. There is something very surprising inside…” Write at least 500 words.
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