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Free story idea ��� For Black History Month

I have a lot of ideas forstories.�� Like, if I wrote a novel���sworth of them every month, I���d still most likely die before getting throughthem all.�� I will admit that some of the ideasprobably suck, but I think there are some that a good writer could makesomething of them.�� I���ll just never get achance to.�� So, I give them to the world.�� If you can make something of these, go rightahead.�� And

Free story idea – For Black History Month

I have a lot of ideas forstories.  Like, if I wrote a novel’sworth of them every month, I’d still most likely die before getting throughthem all.  I will admit that some of the ideasprobably suck, but I think there are some that a good writer could makesomething of them.  I’ll just never get achance to.  So, I give them to the world.  If you can make something of these, go rightahead.  And

Random Writing Tips ��� Have a fun project

Writing can be achore.�� Maybe you���re working on adifficult chapter, or you���re so annoyed with some of the characters you justwant to strangle them, or maybe you���re a bit under the weather but you stillwant to do some writing that day.�� Mysuggestion is to have a fun project.�� Thisis just something you can do for a day or two as a break from your more seriousproject.�� These could be anything

Random Writing Tips – Have a fun project

Writing can be achore.  Maybe you’re working on adifficult chapter, or you’re so annoyed with some of the characters you justwant to strangle them, or maybe you’re a bit under the weather but you stillwant to do some writing that day.  Mysuggestion is to have a fun project.  Thisis just something you can do for a day or two as a break from your more seriousproject.  These could be anything

KENP blues

For those whodon’t know, KENP stands for Kindle Edition Normalized Pages.  As I understand it, since people can changethe font size when they read ebooks on various devices with various sizedscreens, ebooks don’t really have a set number of pages.  So Amazon, I guess, set some number ofcharacters as a “page.” The reason to do this is for the authors.  When you read an ebook with Kindle

Free story idea ��� Lost wallet

I have a lot of ideas forstories.�� Like, if I wrote a novel���sworth of them every month, I���d still most likely die before getting throughthem all.�� I will admit that some of theideas probably suck, but I think there are some that a good writer could makesomething of them.�� I���ll just never get achance to.�� So, I give them to the world.�� If you can make something of these, go rightahead.�� And

Free story idea – Lost wallet

I have a lot of ideas forstories.  Like, if I wrote a novel’sworth of them every month, I’d still most likely die before getting throughthem all.  I will admit that some of theideas probably suck, but I think there are some that a good writer could makesomething of them.  I’ll just never get achance to.  So, I give them to the world.  If you can make something of these, go rightahead.  And

Random Writing Tips ��� Clich�� timing

��Imagine this story.�� One of the main characters is traveling tosome castle and comes across a woman.�� Wethe audience know that she is the other main character, the Queen who was travellingamongst her people and got lost, or something.��They start heading to the castle, and have some adventures on the way,and the Queen falls for the other character.��She finally works up the courage to tell

Random Writing Tips – Cliché timing

 Imagine this story.  One of the main characters is traveling tosome castle and comes across a woman.  Wethe audience know that she is the other main character, the Queen who was travellingamongst her people and got lost, or something. They start heading to the castle, and have some adventures on the way,and the Queen falls for the other character. She finally works up the courage to tell

My writing goals for 2023

 One of my writinggoals for 2021, which carried over to 2022, will carry over to 2023.  That’s to finally finish, and publish, mycollection of fifty stories about writing, The Uncapped Pen.  I am nearly done with it.  There’re one or two stories that are about90% done, and the entire thing needs a good polish, or two.  But my goal is to finish it up and get itout, hopefully by April.  Last