Write NOW!

This section of the blog will eventually be more organized, but here are some juicy bits for starters.

(NOTE: These links all open in a new browser window so you won’t lose your place.)

GOT WRITER’S BLOCK? TRY THESE . . .

Four Fun ‘Fertile Material’ prompts

10 Tips for Using the Fertile Material Writing Prompts

New Writing Prompt: Sparkling Beasts & Glimmering Gods

Milli’s Zodiac Writing Prompts based on Sun Signs for Writers by our very own Bev Walton-Porter (10K Day Participant):

Aries / Taurus / Gemini / Cancer / Leo

15 Fun Writing Challenges from Sunflower Ranch (50-word challenges, but you could easily use any of these to write a short story)

REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY!

Use the Whiplash of Your Inner Critic to Make It Across the Drawbridge

Here’s an example of doing the above but with a fictional character instead, by our very own Patti Stafford (10K Day participant). Look for the second entry on this page; it’s entitled writer’s lament.

MOTIVATIONAL ARTICLES

Writing Dialogue: Don’t Freak Yourself Out

How I Am Overcoming My Inner Critic and My Fear of Success by Lois Eighmy

A Writer Kissed by Inspiration

10 Things to Celebrate About Being a Writer

Rocky Balboa’s Speech to Writers