Writer's Block Workbook 5: 1,000+ new sentence starts and 50+ tips to kick-start your writing!

by Morgen Bailey

Writer's Block Workbook 5 features over a thousand sentence starts, three per day, with writing tips at the end of each week to motivate and inspire, providing kick-starts to avoid the dreaded ‘writer’s block’.Each week is formatted with three sentence starters from the following points of • Day 1: ‘first person’• Day 2: ‘second person’• Day 3: ‘third person’• Day 4: more ‘first person’• Day 5: more ‘second person’• Day 6: more ‘third person’• Day 7: ‘any viewpoint’ where you can literally choose first, second or third person from the sentence starter options.At the end of each week there is a tip that mostly come from one of the day’s starts but not always. You’ll see most third-person sentences don’t have names in case they influence your story.Why three sentence beginnings per day? Two one alone may not be enough to grab you and I don’t want you to sit there as stuck as you were before you read it. With three to choose from, you have more of a chance to find one that you can continue. Secondly, if you have a bit more time on your hands, you continue two or all three of them. Or use them in the same story. Now, there’s a challenge.Each sentence start is given as an example; if you find that as you write, you’d like to change anything about it, it is entirely your choice.The Weekly Tips 1 – lie, lain, lay, laid, raise, riseWeek 2 – anymore vs any moreWeek 3 – ‘ing’sWeek 4 – commas between adjectivesWeek 5 – that or whichWeek 6 – heighten the conflictWeek 7 – oomphing your writingWeek 8 – plural first-person point of viewWeek 9 – collective nounsWeek 10 – keeping it realWeek 11 – facial expressionsWeek 12 – story or storeyWeek 13 – annoying habitsWeek 14 – routines and addictionsWeek 15 – time is not necessarily a healerWeek 16 – sentence, paragraph, chapter, storyWeek 17 – it was all a smokescreenWeek 18 – both, they, weWeek 19 – single entitiesWeek 20 – affect and effectWeek 21 – hinting that all was not wellWeek 22 – give us a break… inWeek 23 – heads and shouldersWeek 24 – possessive apostrophes and hyphensWeek 25 – mirror mirrorWeek 26 – think about what’s missingWeek 27 – editing doesn’t mean huge editsWeek 28 – sentences starting with pronounsWeek 29 – contractions and other dialogue tipsWeek 30 – drip-feeding information to the readerWeek 31 – who, what, where, when, why, howWeek 32 – in to, into, on to, ontoWeek 33 – accents and colloquialismWeek 34 – questionsWeek 35 – okay OKWeek 36 – characters’ thoughtsWeek 37 – dialogue punctuationWeek 38 – inanimate objectsWeek 39 – gender repetitionWeek 40 – well, look and adverbsWeek 41 – crumple vs crumbleWeek 42 – everything has to have a purposeWeek 43 – names and formality in dialogueWeek 44 – action verbs avoid adverbsWeek 45 – using images for your charactersWeek 46 – your main characters’ biographiesWeek 47 – celebratio

122 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 11, 2020

About the author

Morgen Bailey – Morgen with an E – is a freelance editor, writing tutor (in person and online), blogger (helping other authors, sharing tips etc.), Writers’ Forum magazine ‘Competitive Edge’ columnist, speaker, author of several novels (at various stages), 400+ short stories, a series of writer’s block workbooks, an editing guide, articles, and has dabbled with poetry. She is an avid supporter of all things creative writing.

Former Chair of three writing groups, she has judged the H.E. Bates Short Story Competition, RONE, as well as the Althorp Literary Festival children’s short story, BBC Radio 2, and BeaconLit 500-word flash fiction competitions. She also runs her own monthly 100-word competition and was Flash 500's 2018-9 judge.

Events included talks and workshops at Troubador’s Self Publishing Conference speakers, workshops and panels at Delapre Abbey Book Festival, interviewing and workshops at BeaconLit, and NAWG Fest with her ‘Editing your Fiction’ weekend residential course.

Morgen can regularly be found as morgenwriteruk on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, and LinkedIn. When not online, she edits other authors’ books, reads, loves walking her dog, and somewhere in between all that she writes.

Like Morgen, her website is www.morgenbailey.com and her blog http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com is consumed by all things literary. Her email address is morgen@morgenbailey.com.

You can read / download her eBooks (paid and free) at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Smashwords, Sony Reader Store, Barnes & Noble, iTunes Bookstore and Kobo.

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