Take some time today to think more about What If questions. You can take them a step further by first thinking about your chosen genre. Ask yourself, what is expected from this genre? You could say, if mystery is your thing,…
A Look at the Snowflake Method – Part 4 of 4 Here is the fourth installment of the ten steps to writing a novel using the Snowflake Method. Steps one through eight were posted previously. Here now are steps nine…
A Look at the Snowflake Method – Part 3 of 4 Here is the third installment of the ten steps to writing a novel using the Snowflake Method. Steps one through six were posted previously. Here now are steps seven…
A Look at the Snowflake Method – Part 2 of 4 Here is the second installment of the ten steps to writing a novel using the Snowflake Method. Yesterday I posted steps one through three. Here now are steps four,…
A Look at the Snowflake Method – Part 1 of 4 I recently ran across a method of novel planning called the Snowflake Method. I’d heard of it before, but never seen what it is. It takes a seemingly…
It’s October, or for those in the WriMo Realm, its National Novel Planning Month. What are you doing about your novel? Do you have a plan? Do you know your characters? Their motivation? Their conflicts? Think about the stories and…
This is a flash fiction challenge to write a story in a haiku. What resulted is not really a story. It is an observation, a comment on something I find myself thinking about more and more as the years pass.…
Here is a flash fiction challenge to write a story in a sentence. UNFINISHED SYMPHONY She was vitality – personified – from her laughing eyes to her painted toes, yet as unfinished as the text that began, “on my w…”…
This week’s challenge from Chuck Wendig is to leave an opening line for a story in the comments. Here’s what I submitted: I’m not saying the old widow could do it… not exactly, but many were the whispers of recommendation,…
I stand in the camera shop, such a mundane place for the thing I see, and the seeing of it. I found your camera in a box from half a century ago. What a surprise, to find film inside. And,…
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