Stumped, trouble with your WIP, check out this blog from A Writer’s Path. These 7-points helped me jump start some turns and shake out some ideas, maybe they will do the same for you.
Happy New Year and Happy writing everyone!
Author: Jean M. Cogdell
Author of three children’s books encouraging kids to always reach for the stars. Now available at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com.
Additional flash fiction, short stories, and essays are featured in various publications.
Read today, Why I Write
Published –
At Fiction Southeast
Today my essay went live at this exciting online journal. I’m thrilled the editors chose to publish my story and also because this is the first essay I’ve written in more years than I care to count.
Writing Why I Write, was an exercise of love. Through the encouragement of family I’ve set my words free.
Please go to Fiction Southwest and read Why I Write and let me know what you think.
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Where does all the time go?
DAILY PROMPT To Be Resolved
We’re entering the final days of 2014 —
how did you do on your New Year’s resolutions these past 11.75 months?
Is there any leftover item to be carried over to 2015?
Time and Memory Slips Away
Oh my! Sometimes I’ve trouble remembering what I promised to do last week much less eleven months ago. Pushing back the cobwebs I seem to remember wanting to:
- Lose weight, I gained weight,
- Submit more stories than the previous year, I submitted less,
- Read more, oh crap where did the year go…
- Blog more, oops
- Spend more time with friends and family, everybody is so damn busy – me included
Public Domain Wikipedia
Hey, I just remembered something!
I didn’t write any of these down so they don’t count.
Whew, what a relief!
Okay, starting over, this year I resolve to:
Never mind, don’t think I’ll write down my thoughts for 2015 either.
Happy Holidays y’all.
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Alphabet Soup
This blog was one of the hardest, most challenging prompt I’ve seen in quiet some time. I just had to try and hope you will too. Fair warning it’s not as easy as labyless makes it look.
Here is my Alphabet Soup. Don’t judge too hard and have fun.A badass, careless damned elf fabricated gadgets; helped, illusive junk kick loose magical nightmarish objects. Pieces quickly rose stealing through until visiting wistful Xanadu, yesterdays zenith.
Write down the letters of the ABC. For each one, choose a word that begins with that letter. Now, write a post about anything — using all the words you’ve selected.
Amongst Battle Clad Demons Emerged Four Giants.
Hurling Insults Jokingly, Keeping Like Monsters.
Not One Passed Quietly;
Rushing, Stomping Through, Ushering Victims With Xenarthral, Yammering Zealously.
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