Provocative Writing Prompts for Friday, June 15th, 2012: She was having a bad day. I really, really hate you. For decades I believed… Did you sleep well, Kate? Six months after her father died… At the age of 43, I am… We heard a lot about the house… Where the action is. You’re in the […]
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Provocative Writing Prompts for Friday, June 8th, 2012: When you’re reading the paper… It is said… I was just confused. Are we alone? My mom and I have always been… I want but I don’t have… I wish my husband… You can leave… One girl at a time… Go ahead, it’s okay… You’re a lifer…
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What if represents endless possibility. It represents all that will or can be. The first level of what if is to ask what if as it might apply to you, the writer. These what ifs can be ordinary or fantastic. You know yourself and can create endless stories from pairing the words what if with
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Here are your Provocative Phrase writing prompts for Friday, June 1st, 2012: I wanted to see her again… What happens when… Ask her to dance? Because she doesn’t like… They say I am… I can’t help but think… You did good… You can’t send me… You are young… You haven’t slept… I forgot my cell
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The last 3 weeks have been quite have been turbulent. I interviewed for a started a new job on May 21st, after a whirlwind week of an interview, an offer, and then a mad scramble to get a huge laundry list of tasks done that I had not managed to do in the last 9
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Crafting Novels and Short Stories: Everything You Need to Know to Write Great Fiction I don’t know much about this one. I only skimmed it after downloading it for free. It appears to have a lot of good content in it, so if you have a Kindle, download it while it still is free! From
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Here are your Provocative Phrases (writing prompts) for Friday, April 27, 2012: Who’s the boss? Everyone I’ve asked has… That doesn’t make sense to me… All I do is… Is there a choice? You haven’t got a… We’ve got good news… At four o’clock my kid will be at… Now she could… This is how
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Check out this great book on generating writing ideas for any kind of project written by my friend Jack Heffron. It is a free download for your Kindle today, so save yourself $19.99 and get it now! I don’t know how long this will last! Free sign © by khawkins04 The Writer’s Idea Book 10th
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This is a repost of a review that I posted a little over a year ago on Grist for the Muse. This is a great book that I’ve recommended to several of my writing friends lately and filled with topics I want to discuss in more detail soon on this blog. The War of Art:
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Here are your Provocative Writing Prompts for Friday, April 6th, 2012: Oh my God… They want to make sure… I thought you might like to know… Who can blame him? That sounds about right… I’ll be old(and possibly dead) before… I was hesitant to… I suspect that… But if you start… I don’t know… I
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Make Money I often hear writers say that they write as an artistic expression, not for money. Usually this occurs when an editor or agent suggests that he/she make a few changes to the novel in order to make it saleable. Writing as art is bullshit. No one writes so that their perfect, artistic prose
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Why did I change the tagline for this blog to: Write Fast. Make Money? The reason is simple. Let me quote the words of the immortal Samuel Johnson: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” And it’s truer now than it was even back then. Write fast This part of it is
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