prompts can free our creativity, giving us opportunities to think about different words and how to use them in fresh ways. Then we talked about How to use prompts.
Spring Creative and Memoir Writing: Our New Normality Returns
As you write your story or your scene, think about what you see, smell, feel, hear, and even taste, if there is a tray of cookies waiting in your scene.
It’s not so easy to “just forget it” and maybe that’s bad advice!
Personal hurts and wounds surely don't fit into the parameters we are to think on. I have those words on little piece of paper on my computer screen at my desk because like you, I have moments when I need to do a thought check.
Happy New Year!
the list is long of people we have worked with and loved who have passed from this life to the next due to covid. And you know what has helped me the most? The assuredness, the confidence that though they closed their eyes here on earth, they opened them in heaven.
Digesting the Quarantine or Making Sense of the Quarantine
I have trouble praying that God would end the pandemic and end the political mess.
Creative Writing/Memoir Class Notes
It's important to note that guidelines may vary a little based on who you talk to or what you read, but by following the ones stated above, you will ensure sure that your manuscript looks clean, is easy to read and won't get rejected because of sloppy formatting.
Creative Writing and Memoir Class Notes
Give the person a deadline for when you need the manuscript back – if you are giving them the manuscript to them and not reading it to them. Give them a reminder a day or two before your due date. You might say, “I have worked out for Wednesday to be my manuscript workday, so I would appreciate what you have been able to do for me before Wednesday.
Creative Writing and Memoir Writing
Keep a journal for exploring how you feel about your writing, for writing exploratory short pieces, paragraphs, poetry, even as a portable tool to chase what comes to you when it comes to you. Then, if and when you want to, rewrite the entries in a much more polished book format,
Creative Writing and Memoir Writing
The point is that this is your writing space, your office as an author, and you and your body know that when you go to this place, it means work.
Creative Writing/ Memoir Class Notes
If you want to publish a book, you have to develop an audience to buy your book. You do that by building a platform - a tool you use to promote yourself and sell your writing. Your writing platform proves your ability as a writer to promote and sell your books.
