Creative Writing Exercises for Worldbuilding
Whatever you are writing, use these next questions to guide you as you discover your world. These writing prompts are a jumping off point to help uncover details and see beneath the surface of your world.
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Jump-Start Your Imagination: Creative Writing Exercises
Welcome to the Jump-Start Your Imagination series. On the last Friday of every month, we’ll post lots of different creative writing exercises and writing prompts for you to try. These are a great way to jump-start your imagination and kick-start the right creativity-side of your brain into high gear. They can be used as a … [Read more…]
Looking for Writing Motivation? Celebrate Success!
Sometimes writing motivation can be hard to come by. No matter what you write, committing to live the writer’s life is a life-changing journey, inside and out. Writing is an enormous amount of work and at times feels as if there is no reward. The writing life is full of rejection and pitfalls. But then … [Read more…]
National Novel Writing Month: Lonely No More
Think of a writer. What do you see? A solitary figure scribbling away in a musty garret? A lone figure on a beach or writing in a cabin in the woods? Sure, writing can be a lonely, introspective undertaking, but these days—even if you live in a remote area—you can receive encouragement and meet others … [Read more…]
(Romance) Writing 101 or How to Write a Romance…or any Novel
by Bobbi Dumas (Bobbi Dumas is a regular columnist at The How To Write Shop, covering the romance beat. This is her first post.) While this regular post will be about all things romance (from a writing perspective), I wanted to start out with a simple overview of some things that might help you get started. A … [Read more…]