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Creative Writing Ideas

Nano Novel is Done: Now What?

29 November 2010

If you’ve been good and disciplined this year (and of course if you participated in the NaNo challenge) then you now have a first draft of a novel in your hands or on your hard drive. And if you’re anything like me you are now facing the dreaded EDITING process. I have actually, this year, [...]

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5 Commandments To Get More Writing Done

21 June 2010

All writers have a need to write, but it is not so easy to translate this need into actual stories, poems or novels. Part of the reason why this is so, is because it is all too often thought that to write (or to write well) one needs to wait to be inspired to do [...]

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Creative Writing Ideas: NaNoWriMo 2009 Kicks Off

2 November 2009

Today we’ll take a little break from writing prompts because I have some very important news for you. I should have written and published this post before, I quite agree, but it is better late than never, right? Anyway, I am of course, as the title already gave away, talking about the National Novel Writing [...]

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Creative Writing Tips: How to Write a Novel

19 October 2009

This is probably a question many aspiring novelists ask, especially at times of severe writers block. I know I asked it. A few months ago I did lots and lots of searching for the surefire magic formula that would tell me how to get going, how to push through my block, start writing, finish a [...]

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Creative Writing Ideas: Read Before You Write

16 September 2009

Today I thought we could take a break from the regular creative writing prompts in the form of words, sentences, phrases, pictures and the like and do some reading, so to speak. As far as creative writing ideas in general go,they are usually gotten from some outside source and rarely just from within your own [...]

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Creative Writing Ideas: Creating Your Own Writing Style

3 August 2009

This creative writing exercise is very old and often used to help writers gain a firm grasp on their own style and even voice, while it also helps writer’s decipher what works in fiction, and poetry and what does not. And all this is achieved by studying closely the works of other writers or rather [...]

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Creative Writing Ideas: Get Your Own Creative Writing Prompts

20 June 2009

Today we are going to try something a little different…you will generate your own random words creative writjng prompts and then freewrite some very fine stories. In essence this exercise combines both the use of random words creative writing prompts as well as the freewriting creative writing method of getting the wrods to flow and [...]

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Creative Writing Ideas: Free Writing

2 June 2009

Just a quick post today, this one one the topic of great creative writing ideas designed to help you get into a routine of daily writing and the like. One of the best ways to get a story, or any kind of writing for that matter, going is to just free write. The idea here [...]

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Creative Writing Ideas: Seeing Clearly is Writing Well

14 April 2009

Today’s writing exercise is really more one of the creative writing ideas, since it doesn’t involve much writing, but rather a lot of imagining and thinking. Sit comfortably for a few minutes, breathing evenly until your mind is clear (just let thoughts pass through, but do not try and hold on to any one of [...]

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Creative Writing Ideas and Prompts

20 March 2009

Two things are important for any aspiring or established fiction writer. The first is that he or she must write and write daily and the second is that he or she must do creative writing exercises. This blog is here help writers do both by providing fresh creative writing ideas and creative writing prompts, which [...]

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