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How to Use Writing Prompts to Kill Your Creative Demons – Guest Post by Kleia Paluca

We’ve all been there: those days when, no matter how many cups of coffee you drink or hopeful-sounding songs you blast, you just can’t seem to write anything good. Maybe your plot is dragging, or your dialogue feels stilted, or your prose just comes out sounding totally uninspired. Of course, the worst is when you’re incapable of writing altogether, and the day ends up being a total waste.

 

I’m here to offer an unusual solution to these highly prevalent issues: instead of persevering through...

Critique Group – Snow Day

[image error]Don’t forget the critiquing guidelines. All I ask is that you post a comment about the submission below. Don’t feel like you have to critique the whole piece. Even a short comment on one aspect can be helpful.

If you want to submit a manuscript for critique, please read the guidelines as well as this list of common mistakes to avoid before submitting.

This post will stay active indefinitely, so you can come back and add comments at any time. If you are the writer who is being critiqued, you s...

Critique Group – Suri

[image error]Don’t forget the critiquing guidelines. All I ask is that you post a comment about the submission below. Don’t feel like you have to critique the whole piece. Even a short comment on one aspect can be helpful.

If you want to submit a manuscript for critique, please read the guidelines as well as this list of common mistakes to avoid before submitting.

This post will stay active indefinitely, so you can come back and add comments at any time. If you are the writer who is being critiqued, you s...

Critique Group – Before Dawn

[image error]Don’t forget the critiquing guidelines. All I ask is that you post a comment about the submission below. Don’t feel like you have to critique the whole piece. Even a short comment on one aspect can be helpful.

If you want to submit a manuscript for critique, please read the guidelines as well as this list of common mistakes to avoid before submitting.

This post will stay active indefinitely, so you can come back and add comments at any time. If you are the writer who is being critiqued, you s...

Critique Group – The Council of Arganath

[image error]Don’t forget the critiquing guidelines. All I ask is that you post a comment about the submission below. Don’t feel like you have to critique the whole piece. Even a short comment on one aspect can be helpful.

If you want to submit a manuscript for critique, please read the guidelines as well as this list of common mistakes to avoid before submitting.

This post will stay active indefinitely, so you can come back and add comments at any time. If you are the writer who is being critiqued, you s...

Critique Group – Split Obsession

[image error]Don’t forget the critiquing guidelines. All I ask is that you post a comment about the submission below. Don’t feel like you have to critique the whole piece. Even a short comment on one aspect can be helpful.

If you want to submit a manuscript for critique, please read the guidelines as well as this list of common mistakes to avoid before submitting.

This post will stay active indefinitely, so you can come back and add comments at any time. If you are the writer who is being critiqued, you s...

Critique Group – The Coup of Aleston

[image error]Don’t forget the critiquing guidelines. All I ask is that you post a comment about the submission below. Don’t feel like you have to critique the whole piece. Even a short comment on one aspect can be helpful.

If you want to submit a manuscript for critique, please read the guidelines as well as this list of common mistakes to avoid before submitting.

This post will stay active indefinitely, so you can come back and add comments at any time. If you are the writer who is being critiqued, you s...

Critique Group Extra – Journeying to the Star

[image error]I am adding another extra piece to critique this week. Enjoy.

Don’t forget the critiquing guidelines. All I ask is that you post a comment about the submission below. Don’t feel like you have to critique the whole piece. Even a short comment on one aspect can be helpful.

If you want to submit a manuscript for critique, please read the guidelines as well as this list of common mistakes to avoid before submitting.

This post will stay active indefinitely, so you can come back and add comments at...

Critique Group – The Pyramid Scheme

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How to Write Compelling Characters – Guest Post by Pamela Collazos

[image error]We writers often section ourselves off into camps. Plot-first writers go in one camp, and character-first writers in the other. But the truth is that, whether you start with the plot or characters, you must create compelling characters to organically move the story along and interest readers in the plot.

Why? Because I’ve done something very terrible, and if you’re honest, you probably have, too. I’ve read a book, like, say, The Awakening, where I was glad a certain main character (*cough* Ed...