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Here’s another creative writing prompt for your 750 words, a challenge to write 750 words each day in January to better Think Like a Writer. Today, you want to think about creating symbolism in a short piece. This can be powerful stuff in a novel, a short story or even an essay. You want to [...]
Here’s another creative writing prompt for your 750 words, a challenge to write 750 words each day in January to better Think Like a Writer. Today, spend your precious 750 words doing nothing but writing titles for stories that you might want to write. Every ten or so, stop and think about which ones you [...]
I am trying to keep up with my friend, Charlie, who has ridden his bike over 25 miles a day for over 3000 consecutive days. I want to write 750 words a day and I’m using 750words.com to keep track of everything. The point of this exercise is to make sure I am Thinking Like [...]
To think like a writer, you must learn to write in scenes as one of the basic creative writing prompts. A scene is a set of contained actions and most writers have sort of an idea about how it goes. But they go wrong in several ways. First, a scene is a series of actions [...]
In today’s installation of Think Like a Writer, we’ll look at creating a certain mood for your story, novel, or picture book. Writers know that readers want a certain experience and part of that is creating emotion or feeling. In other words, we need to create a setting that has a certain mood. How to [...]
Yesterday, December 31, my friend Charlie Woods rode his bike 60 miles and finished his yearly goal of 10,000 miles. That’s an average of 27.8 miles per day and he’s been hitting that goal for over 3000 days. Yes, without fail. Rain or shine (he has a stationary bike for bad-weather days), sick or healthy, [...]
30 Days to a Stronger Scene What has the most potential for improving your writing? Learning to write a strong scene; then making sure every scene in your story is strong. Because it’s so important, we’ll spend the next 30 days breaking down scenes and trying to write the strongest possible. 30 Days to a [...]
Welcome Mat: Your Novel’s Title When you are brainstorming titles, think of it as a welcome mat. A title’s job is to bring readers into your novel, story, or picture book. This is why the title is often changed by
Writers use many tools! Here are some I use online, offline, and by hand. Essential Writing Tools: Pen or pencil. No, you don’t need this $2000, 18k gold pen. Or even this pen and pencil set. These pencils are fine. paper Preferred Writing Tools WordPerfect
Every Novel Needs a Scene In my WIP, I need to write a big scene: cast of dozens, culmination of major plot threads, emotional high for major characters. Big scenes should be a part of every novel, because there should be places where characters, plot events, outer and inner narratives arcs, and subplots intersect. The [...]
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