Here are some great sites to start you on your idea-mining adventure. Get that right-side creative brain going and visit some of these sites to use as creative writing exercises for stories, characters, themes, whatever!
Don’t stay down, no matter how long ago you fell off the writing horse. If you want to write, no matter what it is—letters, a journal, a biography, your musings on life, family history, a poetry collection, that book you’ve always wanted to write—join me and start the challenge today.
There are as many types and ways to journal as there are people who keep them! Journaling is a way to think out loud and discover what is within, especially if you freewrite (just start writing and keep going as you empty your mind onto the page). You will find out some interesting aspects and … [Read more…]
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.
Writing a page-turning novel is so much more than planning plot twists and fast-moving action. A page-turning novel begins with an idea that is so compelling it draws a reader in from the first word and never lets go. So where do you start when thinking about writing your page-turning novel?