Start Lines and Writing Prompts

Exercises, Start Lines, Writing Prompts

Follow @StartLines Steps slow, weighed down by fear… Declines to print them business cards… Both sought the father they never had… Discovers she is self-editing freedom’s voice… Can’t admit they’re responsible… Fireplace coughs smoke into their room… She...

Why Writing is Power

Exercises

The first written story I recall making was on a visit to my great aunt and uncle. I may have been 7 or 8. Uncle Clair and I drove to the woods, chopped wood, stacked it in the back of the truck and trailer, then cleaned and put away our tools. We had lunch in the...

Building Character

Exercises, Organize Your Writing

I laughed while reading an explanation of how to develop a character’s voice when the author of the piece talked about how easy it could be when the person had an accent. Please. That is not a “voice”, that is an accent. No more than if you had an Irish accent that...

How Writing Happens

Organize Your Writing, Your Happy Place to Write

There is just no way to get around it. You won’t produce without producing. Yes, you can dictate your words and have the computer type it up. But they have to go from somewhere inside your brain to somewhere on the page. This is the work. I wanted to write ever since...

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