Your Creativity Spark: Passion to Write
Your Creativity Spark: Passion to Write – How To Write the Future, podcast episode 51 “Write with all your senses and let your mind wander far and deep and into the past. Or far...
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Deliberate Practice for Fiction Writers: Definition and 7 Techniques by Dave Chesson
Improve your fiction writing skills faster with “deliberate practice,” a well-known practice used by athletes and musicians for years.
The Blank Page Doesn’t Scare Me by Hugh Tipping
No need to dread the blank page any longer. Check out these tips on the writing process by fantasy and poetry writer, Hugh Tipping.
Freelance Writing Tips for Students by Lucy Reed
Today we welcome a new guest writer to Writer’s Fun Zone, Lucy Reed who is stopping by to chat with us about “Freelance Writing Tips for Students.” Enjoy! *** Freelance writing is the perfect...
Be Nice to Your Future Self – Write Today by Catharine Bramkamp
To get writing tomorrow, be nice to your future self and follow these tips from writing coach and teacher, Catharine Bramkamp.
Blogging for Fiction Authors by Jason Hamilton
To gain attention for your novels, try blogging – a powerful marketing resource. Here’s some basic misconceptions and advice to get started.
Your Writer Uniform by LA Bourgeois
Having a uniform to use when you are writing can help you prepare your creative space and put you in the mood for writing.
Write What’s Easy: Accepting Our Expertise by Catharine Bramkamp
Writing is expected to be difficult and difficulty is often idolized as necessary. Rather than question the process, we should welcome the ease and expertise we’ve developed.
Getting Intimate with Your Characters by Kay Keppler
A famous author once said that every book should contain a love story. Now, that author might not have thought that the love story needed a sex scene, but many novelists writing in every genre do include sex scenes in their books. And there’s a problem with that.
My Favorite Monsters by Nevada McPherson
Halloween is on its way; time to get out Boney, our life-size skeleton decoration. He’s been around for several years now. His skull fell off his neck, but we repaired him and now he’s sitting in a fold-out chair on our porch, waving at passers-by, his skeleton hand high in the air.
Are You Positive? by Carol Malone
I don’t know if you’re like me, but watching all the disasters taking place recently has left me feeling forlorn for the loss of life and property, and less than positive about the future.
Time Management – How to Eek Out More Time by Chloe Adler
I wrote one blog on the tools one can use for productivity before at and all of those tools still stand. They’re all great. What I found was that I used too many at once and that didn’t end up working well for me as I spent more time inputting and checking off than was necessary.
Learning from Our Reading by Martin Haworth
Over the summer I’ve been reading a lot (haven’t we all?) and I’ve realised that my reading has changed a little as I’ve started to write more and with the hindsight of what I’ve learned along the way.
Backstory: Not a Dirty Word by Kay Keppler
We’ve all heard the first commandment for writers: never open your book with backstory. And the second commandment? No infodumps. And the third? Sprinkle that backstory throughout your book.
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