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Take the February 750word challenge. The website 750words.com challenges writers every month to write every day that month and make it at least 750 words. Now, think about it. February only has 28 days; except this is a leap year, sorry. Still, that’s one day less to win this challenge. You can write 750 words [...]
For the last two days, we have focused on point of view in your story or novel. Your writing tasks for today–for your “750 words each day in January”–is to practice POV. Today, focus on 3rd person point of view. 3rd person POV A 3rd person POV pulls back from the position inside the character’s [...]
Yesterday, today and tomorrow, we are focusing on point of view in your story or novel. Your writing tasks for the next 2 days for your “750 words each day in January” is to practice POV. Today, we’ll focus on 1st person point of view. 1st person POV When the camera resides inside one character’s [...]
For the recent discussion on focal length of your scene, I accidentally confused a reader. I wrote: A scan is a way to show a crowd scene economically, yet in an interesting way. It involves a series of small zooms: the quarterbackâs mother is taping the game with a new video camera that she borrowed [...]
Have you signed up for 750words.com yet? Or will you try doing 750 words on paper? I’ve just completed my 20th day of doing 750 words! 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. The next three days [...]
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. This is the second day of three days of Thinking Like a Writer about scenes. Here’s the first post to remind you about panoramas, zooms and scans. Zooms focus in [...]
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. The next three days of Thinking Like a Writer are all connected and I’ll explain it here, then just remind you of the prompts for the next two days. When [...]
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 [...]
This month, I am trying to Think Like a Writer and write 750 words a day, practicing my writing, much like a musician plays scales daily. Today, I will be a Grinch, a mean one. Why? Because fiction is built on conflict: without bad things happening, the reader is bored. A bored reader equals failure! [...]
Have you signed up for 750words.com yet? Or will you try doing 750 words on paper? I’ve just completed my 36th day of doing 750 words! If the first task of Think Like a Writer is to observe the world around you, the task of the fiction writer or the novelist, is to create, then [...]
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