What Do you Do When Your Passion Project Ends? Finishing a big writing project can feel like the end of a love affair. So what do you do when your passion project ends? And so[…]
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Writer In Motion Blog Project – Draft 4
This year, I am participating in the Writer In Motion Blog Project. Starting with a rough first draft, writers refine their work each week until they produce the final, polished draft.
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Writer In Motion – Draft 3
Writer In Motion is a blog event, showing the progress from first draft to finished product. This week, writers edited their stories following feedback from their critique partners.
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Writer In Motion Blog Project – Draft 2
This year, I am participating in the Writer In Motion Blog Project. Starting with a rough first draft based on the picture below, writers edit and refine their stories during the month of November. Below is my second draft entitled “A Day on the Water.”
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Writer In Motion Blog Project
This year, I am participating in the Writer In Motion Blog Event. The event takes place throughout November and literally shows writers in motion from the first draft, right through to the finished product. In Week 1, writers are given a prompt in the form of a picture to base a story on and over the coming weeks, edit their drafts into a polished story. Today’s blog features my first draft, entitled “A Day on the Water”.
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How Do You Keep the Magic in Your Writing?
In writing our story, it’s important to find the right balance between technique and inspiration. I recently started an online course to learn how to plot a novel. The woman delivering the course has worked[…]
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Why it Hurts to Write a Novel
How Suffering is Part of the Creative Process At a recent writer’s group, author Michelle Tom described libraries as “archives of pain.” While this melodramatic pronouncement made us all laugh, we had to agree that[…]
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How to Avoid the Head Hopping Trap
Why Writers Shouldn’t Head Hop and How You Can Avoid It Head hopping is the jarring practice of jumping from one character viewpoint to another with little warning. When writers ping from one viewpoint to[…]
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The Truth About Self Exposure
The Truth About Self Exposure: What I learned from a Naked Lady. #WritingCommunity #writers #writerslife
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Hook Your Readers Using Sensory Description
There is no better way to lure readers into your story than by appealing to all five of their senses. Readers engage with stories because of the way they make them feel, and what better[…]
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