Skip to content Every Friday the peeps that run Paper Hangover run Flash Fiction Friday. Yours truly blows at flash fiction–it always winds up being a longer piece down the road. Anyway, poached directly from their site: “Here’s the gist. Each week, one of us we’ll give you some kind of writing prompt–it won’t always be stories, just … Read more
Every Wednesday, YA Highway asks their readership a simple question to answer on your blog. Once you answer, you link your blog in the comments for other readers to hop on board. This is Road Trip Wednesday. Today’s question: Who from real life have you written into a book? My creative writing professor in college … Read more
Credit Style and methods, that is! I totally poached this meme from Holly that she posted back in December. I’ve kept it filed away for a day when I needed something in a pinch. Since today’s Tuesday and the 9-5 job has my brain all scrambled, it looks like today would be the day. … Read more
Falling to Normal Wordle Crutch words are those sneaky things that are the backbone of your personal vernacular. They can be disguised as fillers, such as “um,” or actual phrases, like “you know?” and “omigod!” They’re so insidious an unobservant person wouldn’t pick up on them.* This is one of the things you should be … Read more
Zombie Thursdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here. Merry Christmas! I have a special holiday treat for everyone today! Normally, I stick to the realm of non-fiction writing. I feel like I lack the creativity to write a fictional story with a plot and characters and … Read more