Continuing our Guest Prompt week, today’s prompt comes from novelist and teacher Gregory Frost. Thanks, Greg! The Prompt Unusual Ways of Seeing Imagine a person with a very idiosyncratic way of seeing the world (for example, a low-end drug dealer who’s perpetually paranoid because he’s sure everyone wants to steal his stuð; or an accountant [...]
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[Writing Prompt] Guest Prompt from James Scott Bell
Today’s prompt is from best-selling novelist and popular writing teacher James Scott Bell. Thanks, Jim The Prompt from JSB Write about your antagonist’s life at the age of sixteen. What were the events that shaped this character back then, and still haunt today? James Scott Bell is a best-selling author of books for writers and [...]
[Writing Prompt] Guest Prompt from Simon Kewin
To engage your readers and hook them in from the first line, it’s a great idea to start in media res, which means into the middle of things. So…
Climbing Mount Revision One Step At A Time
As we sit here, there are only seven days left in May. Seven more stories and then you’re free to take a break, keep writing, set your stories on fire or, preferably revise them into works of genius. To help you out with that latter option I’ve recruited Gabriela Pereira from DIYMFA.com to give you [...]
[Tuesday Reading Room] – Peeling
Today’s Reading Room post is by regular contributor Jami Balkom, who is reading a story a day during 2012. This week she was reading Peeling by Nathan Holic. Diversion. A woman struggling with fertility finds a distraction away from her marital and emotional struggle. She finds herself collecting beer labels, craft beers of all kinds, and [...]
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