These little buckets were originally the wedding favour pots at my friends wedding which I have repurposed. I thought it was a nice wintery image to share for a writing exercise 🙂 What do they make you think of? Write about them or the associated emotions for 5 minutes and see where it takes you!
Now the first half of the month is over, I feel it is time to bring out the Christmas Cheer and some festive inspiration and because I am still obsessed with Pinterest, I have create a Christmas Board. I find working my way through large caches of images like this gets me in the right […]
A little early perhaps but for those who like it all Christmas like – here are ten story starters to kick start the festive story writing 🙂 1) It was December the 25th but all was not well in the little house in the middle of suburbia. 2) Snow clouds smugded the skyline, a sickly […]
Here are some icing snowflakes that I made, what would you do with them? Do they remind you of anything? Use the photograph to get the creative juices flowing 🙂
Use these story starters to get the imagination going and to get you writing! 1) The icicles hung in a line, not perfect nor straight but they were… 2) The fairy lights had somehow been warmer in the past, all their pretty lights in defused glows, now they were harsh, hurting the eye. 3) Candy […]
But I know have a The Little Book of Festive Poetry mug and a bunch of Christmas cards – sadly they still have not arrived and are not in large enough bulk to be selling them properly but basically the mugs are £8 and the cards are £2 each. Next year I do hope to […]
Due to the success (at least for me) of the Inspire the Muse and Halloween boards on Pinterest as writing stimuli, I have created a Deep Ice board. Pinterest and Deviant Art are also great places to track down artists for book covers etc…
It is day two of Advent and that got me thinking about cool smallish writing challenges – why not write a series of stories for advent. Make a calendar out of them? 24 stories about winter or Christmas or just random stuff? Or 24 snippets of a longer story which can be read out on […]
Today is the day after NaNoWriMo, added to my GothNoWriMo writing challenge I did in October and I have written a lot in the last two months and I mean ALOT. So when I validated yesterday my word count was 112, 054 – and I managed to write the 4000 extra on the novel I […]
I wanted to end NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month – a writing challenge I have been taking part in this month) with a bang, but sadly it has been a whimper. I had planned to do the night of writing dangerously and a writing retreat but I came down suddenly ill on Friday afternoon and […]