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October 30, 2015
NaNoWriMo Word Count Tracker
I know you lot are always up for a challenge. A significant portion of the crew here takes on NaNoWriMo each November. So I have a gift for you. A Month Without Math I’ve created a word-count tracker that dynamically calculates how many words you need to write every day to hit your targets. It […]
October 21, 2015
Back To The Future
This is it. This is the day Marti McFly travels forward to: 4:29 pm (California time), October 21, 2015. And this was the moment when I knew I was going to be a writer: The pure joy that shot through me as the writers unveiled the time paradox, set off a bomb in my brain. […]
October 20, 2015
[Write On Wednesday] Get Your Kicks on Route 66
Detours Sometimes Lead to Conflict How often do our travels – or our lives, for that matter – go exactly as planned? The detours often lead to conflict, and conflict drives drama. Conflict provides the impetus for action and the catalyst for your characters to change. Conflict keeps things interesting – if it doesn’t get […]
October 19, 2015
What Do You Want?
If you knew that the thing you wanted was behind this door, what would you do? Would you open it? So, what do you want? And what do you have to do to get on the other side of that door?
October 15, 2015
Now What?
StoryADay Sept is over. You did great. You wrote. You participated in the community. You got a real boost from all the creativity. But now it’s half way through October and you’re not writing nearly as much, if at all. You feel like a failure. Change Your Point Of View As with so much of […]
October 6, 2015
[Write On Wednesday] – Cargo Cult
Such Bounty from Above! Today’s prompt, should you choose to use it, involves the creation of an imaginary cargo cult. A cargo cult is a religious movement usually emerging in tribal or isolated societies after they have had an encounter with an external and technologically advanced society. Usually cargo cults focus on magical thinking and […]
September 30, 2015
SWAGr – October 2015 Check-In
Every month we gather here to discuss what we’ve achieved and commit to making more progress in our creative lives in the coming month. We call it our Serious Writer’s Accountability Group or SWAGr, for short! (We’re serious, not sombre!) Leave a comment below telling us how you got on last month, and what you plan to do next […]
September 29, 2015
Sept. 30 – A Dozen Roses
The Prompt Jeff was walking to the parking garage after work when he comes upon a flower stand full of beautiful roses. Jeff decides to buy a dozen roses for his lover. Go! Deanna Denny is retired after many years of working in Human Resources. She became interested in writing in 2014 and started her blog with […]
[Reading Room] On Cosmology by Roísín O’Donnell
I’m often wary of modern Irish and British stories because they tend to be grim. In On Cosmology, by Roísín O’Donnell’s Hennesy/Irish Times prize-winning story for August 2015, a lecturer in astrophysics wonders about the ‘gooey, alien-like creature’ which may be growing inside her. So yes, it does deal with sex and issues of pregnancy […]
September 28, 2015
Sept 29 – Tension Tuesday
Endings So, our thirty day journey of exploration is almost over. For an easier wind down, todays prompt takes the form of … an ending! Sometimes it can be easier to start a story at the end rather than the beginning. At least you know what you are working towards! The Prompt In no more […]
