Category Archives: creative

Twiction Writer Spills the Beans on Midnight Stories

Written on April 14, 2009 by Milli Thornton in Ben White, Twitter, creative, midnightstories, nanofiction, story, tweet, tweetfic, twiction, twitterfic, writer
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BEN WHITE is making excellent creative use of his Twitter stream as a writer.
For those not familiar with the social media site, on Twitter.com posts are restricted to 140 characters.
At first only knowing him as @midnightstories, I enjoyed the mystery being unveiled with each new post. Eventually, my curiosity got the better of [...]

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Idea Avalanches, Procrastination & Getting Some Writing Done

Written on February 6, 2009 by Milli Thornton in creative, ideas, kimi alexandre, podcast, procrastination, urban fantasy, whizfolders, writer, writing
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KIMI ALEXANDRE is a writer, blogger, podcaster and the author of Guardians, a podcast novel.
Her blog, Tale Chasing, is for writers and readers of urban fantasy.
A recent post on Tale Chasing, entitled Drowning…, really opened a vein for me. Kimi was talking about a goal she didn’t fulfill for January and her issues [...]

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Write There (Part III): Style Is Not a Mystery

Written on January 17, 2009 by Milli Thornton in author, blogging, creative, creativity, self-publish, successful writers, write, writer, writing style
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I HAVEN’T CHECKED lately, but I’m sure there are scads of books out there designed to help you with the technical aspects of style. But we already know that’s not my forte, so here it is from a heart perspective:
Part of your style means doing it the way that feels good to you.
That may [...]

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Your Screenplay Sucks!

Written on November 14, 2008 by Milli Thornton in William M. Akers, book review, character, creative, dialogue, fear of writing, good writing, hero, movies, screenwriter, screenwriting, story, writer, your screenplay sucks
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This post has been moved to my new blog, Screenwriting in the Boonies

Milli Thornton is the author of Fear of Writing: for writers & closet writers. Find out more about the book at http://fearofwriting.com. Visit her blog at: http://millithornton.blogspot.com.

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