This idea comes from BIW writer Glenys O’Connell:
Read your “quickie” daily horoscope and write a scene or short story based on it.
Now get writing!
Sometimes, I find it hard to be disciplined about writing, especially when I am busy with work and family. I realize that if I want to make the jump from amateur to professional, then I better pull myself together, buckle down and get the work done. Discipline takes practice and perseverance. You can have all…
Sometimes the twenty four hours in a day is not enough time to get it all done, especially if you’re trying to write a novel and you do not have the luxury of a big block of time every day to get it done. When Stephen King was asked how he wrote, he replied: “One…
Before you begin to submit your finished novel for publication, you should first have it critiqued. A neutral pair of eyes can do wonders for your manuscript and make positive suggestions that you had not even thought of. Getting your novel critiqued is taking it to the next level. After all, you want it in…
The hardest part of writing is getting the story from inside my head and onto the paper. For the most part, the story is very clear in my mind. The book I want to write plays out like a movie reel in my head: there is a beginning, a middle and an end. But sometimes…
In relation to writing, whenever I think of setting, I tend to think of it in the most simplest of terms: place; like the ocean or mountains. But setting is so much more than that. Aside from place, it also involves time and can include historic circumstances of the time. For instance if you think…
For many of us, writing is a passion. We observe, daydream, jot notes, and become lost in our worlds. Then we come to the paper or the computer and bring those worlds to fruition. We are storytellers. We are artists. Yet, even if we are in the middle of writing and a friend or family…