A lovely exercise to get the creative juices flowing is to get a money box and turn it into a story box. Set it up on a shelf or table with strips of paper and pens, then when ever someone visits your house get them to write a sentence down and to post it into […]
IF you are stuck for a writing idea grab the nearest book to you and play a little writing game. Open it at random and write down the words that start each line on that page. Now you have a list of words like this: go but to Peter be sweaty he ran belch of […]
Here is a wonderful free tool for writers – it is a writing challenge generator by Seventh Sanctum. Just follow the link and it takes you to a page where you can decide on what them you want for the challenge. You can then decide on how complex or long you want it. This sort […]
Sometime writing can seem souless and pointless and it is at this point that you need to have someone to write for. I have found writing for somebody to be a good way to break out of this trap – I even used to make little booklets with hand drawn characters for my little girl […]
I love writing challenges – it started with NaNoWriMo of National Novel Writing Month were you write 50, 000 words in a month. Nano has a huge community with a forum were help can always be found or an exercise to get you going, and local groups so you get to meet other local writers. […]
Most of us use wikipedia just to look up something very specific but a great way of using it as a writer is to go to the home page. There they have a featured article which though not something you would normally read can lead to some fantastic story ideas or give you unexpected facts […]
Start with the first word and end with the last and include all the ones in between in you story – this is a fun little exercise that can get the juices flowing 🙂 1) Shadows 2) Flint 3) Shimmer 4) Stealth 5) Jealousy 6) Cashew 7) Priest 8) Oil 9) Mother 10) Steely 11) […]
If you are stuck in a rut where writing is concerned going to a writing workshop or retreat (where you have nothing to do other than write) or even starting a creative writing course – can jolt you back into the flow of writing again. Rarely it can have the opposite affect especially if you […]
Now fan fiction is a thorny issue – it can upset authors as it does impinge on there rights some what. However many authors allow it as long as you are not selling the books or making money from it and many series would not have been able to continue if a fan fiction writer […]
I found another wonderful album for writers to have a look at – this one is called Places You Wont Believe Actually Exist.