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How to Inhabit the Character You Write About One key to engaging your reader is to give them a character they love to read about. Author Diana Souhami gives her top tips for making this happen. Author: May 4, 2021 As a writer, I spend most of my life with people who are dead. How sad is that? Deeply perverse. I am in the resurrection business. I relate obsessively to people who aren’t there, more so than to the living. I read their diaries and love letters, pore over photographs, prowl round ...

Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 563 Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started on the Poetic Asides blog. This week, write an after poem. Author: May 5, 2021 Back to the Wednesday Poetry Prompts! For our last WPP, we wrote a spring poem (a few days before spring officially started). Now were charging toward summer! For todays prompt, write an after poem. The poem could be after a long project (or poetry challenge). Or it could be after a long break (l...

5 Tips to Work Through Procrastination Have you caught yourself doing anything other than sitting down to write? Procrastination and writers block happen to every writer. Let author Clare Whitfield give you tips on how to overcome and get back to writing. Author: May 3, 2021 The only reason my oven has EVER been cleaned is when there is a looming writing deadline hurtling towards me like a ten-tonne truck. Rather than make things easier for myself by sitting down and getting with it, I clean ou...

Writing for the Time Impoverished: How to Structure Your Writing to Make Sure You Finish Your Novel What separates professional writers from amateurs? Author Matthew Harffy has the answer, and tips for ensuring that you make your publication dreams a reality. Author: Joseph Epstein wrote in The New York Times in 2002 that “81 percent of Americans feel they have a book in them—and that they should write it.” He then urged people not “to write that book ... Keep it inside you, where it b...

Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For todays prompt, write a goodbye poem.

2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 29 Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For todays prompt, write an evening poem. Author: For todays prompt, write an evening poem. The evening can be a quiet and contemplative time, a stressed or fearful time, or, well, party time. Evenings can be lonely or romantic, cool or humid, inspirational or numbing. And today (or tonight, depending on when you consume your poetry prompts), evening is the time for poeming--even if youre ...

2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 26 Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For todays prompt, write a blank world poem. Author: Apr 26, 2021 As we near the end of the month, I hope youll continue to play around with your poems in May and beyond. To help that process, heres my one simple rule for revising your poetry. May it help you as you further the creation process. For todays prompt, take the phrase "(blank) World," replace the blank with a word or phrase, ma...

Jesse Q. Sutanto: On Accidental Murder and Meddlesome Families Author Jesse Q. Sutanto explains how she created the plot for her novel Dial A for Aunties and how she lets her characters dictate their story. Author: Apr 26, 2021 Jesse Q. Sutanto grew up shuttling back and forth between Indonesia, Singapore, and Oxford and considers all three places her home. She has a masters from Oxford University, but she has yet to figure out how to say that without sounding obnoxious. Jesse has 42 first cous...

2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 25 Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For todays prompt, write a thought poem. Author: Apr 25, 2021 If you want something fun to keep you occupied in May, check out my list of more than 160 poetic forms. Each form includes guidelines and an example poem to show how the form works! For todays prompt, write a thought poem. Of course, my first thought (maybe like yours) is, "Arent all poems thought poems?" Well, I guess, but Im t...

2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 24 Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For todays prompt, write a question poem. Author: Apr 24, 2021 Recently, I stumbled on this post from 7 years back, and I thought Id share it, because I think its still relevant today: "What is the value of poetry?" I hope youve been finding plenty to value this month! For todays prompt, write a question poem. There are a few different ways to come at this one. First, make the title of you...