Hey there! If you’re a longtime reader of this blog, you know the drill: on Work in Progress Wednesday, I share an excerpt of the story I’m working on and invite you to do the same in the comments section below. There are only a few guidelines! Keep your excerpt to 500 words or less, if you don’t want me
Category: Writing Matters
Talents and skills are great things to consider when developing characters. You might also want to use it to think about your own talents and how you would describe yourself! A person’s talents, whether public or private, wide-ranging or quite specific, universally valued or unfairly disregarded. are central to their identity and character. The list below includes not just talents
Hey friends! Let’s talk about bookshelf decor! This is a roundup of fun ideas for bookshelf styling, including some things that are on my own bookcases. My husband and I just gave away a few hundred books. We did it to reduce our bill to the moving company when we moved from LA to the Chicago suburbs. It had been
Hey friends! It’s another Work in Progress Wednesday—the first Wednesday of every month, when I share an excerpt of something I’m working on, and you do the same in the comments section. (If you’re not ready to share this month and you don’t want to miss the next one, be sure to follow the blog so you get email notifications!
Hey, amazing writers! After I posted my 25 Short Story Ideas last week, I got a few questions about the usual length of a short story. I’m going to show you the actual word counts of some very successful published short stories, but first, here’s the simple answer… A typical short story word count is between 4,000 and 10,000 words.
In my years of blogging, I’ve tried to share lots of awesome story ideas (like my Mystery Writing Ideas , Fantasy Story Ideas , and Romance Plot Ideas .) I’m sure some of my previous lists of plot ideas could be short story prompts, but I thought I’d do a list specifically for good short story ideas. [AdSense-B] I wrote
Hey friends! Happy June! Happy summer! (Or happy winter, for my friends Down Under.) How’s it going? Mr. Donovan and I are all moved into our new house in the Chicago suburbs, and I’m ready for a season with lots of blogging and writing. We’ll kick it off with a WIP Wednesday! For those of you who are new, welcome!,