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Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

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“Pillow Top”

Quotes

“Start early and work hard. A writer’s apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he’s almost ready to begin. That takes a while.” -David Eddings

“The faster I write the better my output. If I’m going slow, I’m in trouble. It means I’m pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.” -Raymond Chandler

“The heart makes the eloquence.” -Edward Dahlberg

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“Suppose”

Prompts (This week’s prompts from here)

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A man spends the afternoon building a snowman with his son, but as he’s getting ready for bed that night he notices that snowman has moved at least 20 feet toward the house.

While hiking in the woods, a man and his partner come across a reindeer that seems to desperately want to be followed.

“I found it, on a branch, in the Christmas tree.”

Two twin girls set out on Christmas Eve with a plan: to capture Santa Claus.

A family decides to spend their winter holiday in their uncle’s cabin in the woods, but they wake up in the middle of the night to a visitor digging through the trash: an abominable snowman.

A Christmas Tree that loses its star sets out on a mission to find it.

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Love Will Knock You Down

and more!

My Pinterest board filled with gift ideas for writers and readers! It’s not too late to get the writer in your life what they really want this holiday season.

This site has a really cool infographic about mythical creatures from around the world. Seriously, it’s worth checking out!

Titles are important. Here are some things to think about when naming your book!

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Moving on After a Break Up

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Have something to share? This is your chance to promote yourself, your blog, or even just a helpful site you came across. Submissions go here (and let’s hope they are writing related.)

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Writer Wednesday 33: Word Favoritism

I have come to help the writers! Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think. (Don’t let my comment box stay lonely!) Did you try one of these writing prompts? Let me know! I love to see what other writers are up to. <3 Kyle

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“First Thoughts”

Quotes

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.” -Harold Acton

“When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.” -Samuel Lover

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.” -James Michene

Tweet: “I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.” -James Michene #amwriting

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Two Sugars (short fiction)

Prompts

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Is that a threat?

They thought he was dead. Boy were they wrong.

What if?

Oh, to be young again

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“So I get up and leave”

and more!

The prompts above didn’t tickle your fancy? Try this site where they give you a word (just one!) and you have to start writing right away. Best of luck!

Notice certain words that tend to appear over and over again in your writing? This is the site to help you. Have a similar problem, but with actual phrases? Check this out.

Find a cliché and toss it out, all day long you’ll feel good about…going to this website

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“I lie to you”

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Have something to share? This is your chance to promote yourself, your blog, or even just a helpful site you came across. Submissions go here (and let’s hope they are writing related.)

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Writer Wednesday 32: Thanksgiving

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! Did you try one of these writing prompts? Let me know! I love to see what other writers are up to. Happy [early] Thanksgiving! <3 Kyle

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Quotes

“A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn’t spin a bit of magic, it’s missing something.” -Esther Freud

“Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true.” -Dylan Thomas

“The real joy of writing comes from surprising oneself.” -Alfred Kazin

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Prompts

“I can go if we’ll be back by 10:30.”

She could not get the smell of glue off of her fingers.

This morning was different from the rest, and not just because he decided to eat breakfast for a change.

There are three things I wish to tell you:

I have my doubts.

Tell the story of your Thanksgiving…from the perspective of the turkey

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and more!

22 Rules of Storytelling According to Pixar

How to Get Past That Rough Draft

50 Things to Know to Self-Publish a Book on Amazon

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Writer Wednesday 31: Setting & POV

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

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What the Person You Deserve is Like

 

Quotes

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.” -Gabriel García Márquez

“All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.” -Pablo Neruda

“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”-Toni Morrison

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“Edges”

Prompts

Your character is getting ready to move to the moon

Your character is suddenly 20 feet tall. How did this happen? What is life like for them now?

Borrow from a friend! Got a favorite character from someone else’s book? You can either go the route of fan fiction or just borrow a trait or two that you see them use and give it a whirl.

When dinosaurs roamed the earth…oh wait, they still do!

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“Oliver and No Company”

 

and more!

How to Build a Fictional World:  http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-build-a-fictional-world-kate-messner

Note from Kyle: For graduate school, one of my assignments was to write a piece that takes place in an alternate universe. There were more notes and restrictions in regards to the prompt itself, but that is what it boiled down to: alternate universe. The idea was terrifying! I had never written a piece that took place in a world other than our own and I was unsure how to create such a world in a short amount of space. Worse yet, what if it came off as phony? Ultimately I survived and ended up with a piece I actually am quite fond of, but for those of you attempting your first “alternate universe”/”fictional world” or even if you are more experienced, this post might be of use to you. As always, practice makes pretty writing! ( I mean, is it ever “perfect”?)

Using Location as a Character in a novel: http://ellisshuman.blogspot.co.il/2013/02/using-location-as-character-in-novel.html

Note from Kyle: A lot of writers accidentally overlook setting (myself included), and this is a mistake! Whether you are creating your own world (see link above) or placing your characters in the “real world,” you want your reader to feel as if they are really a part of that world. Tell your reader what’s around them but, more importantly, show them what’s there. Develop your setting into a world your reader will fall in love with as if it is one of your characters.

Find the Perfect Point of View for Your Story: http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/point-of-view-what-is-it-how-to-find-the-perfect-voice-for-your-story/

Note from Kyle: Unsure of what point of view to use to tell your story? Try writing the same part of the story from a few different perspectives and see what “feels right.” I find that this allows you practice the use of different perspectives, recognize when you might want to use one perspective over another, and, of course, get a feel for which is the right fit for your story.

 

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Writer Wednesday 30: Let’s Break the Rules

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

 

Quotes

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” NORA EPHRON

“Art has an obligation to offend.” EDWARD ALBEE

“Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.” TONY KUSHNER

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Prompts

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I have never been more frightened then when…

Describe your home town from an objective perspective.

Write a letter to your friend about something you cannot tell them face to face

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and more!

5 Ways to Build a Detailed World Without Boring Your Readers: bekindrewrite.com/2013/08/16/5-ways-to-build-a-detailed-world-without-boring-your-readers

25 Truths Learned While Writing a First Novel: www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creating-in-flow/201401/25-truths-learned-while-writing-first-novel

A Case for Creative Rule Breaking: www.good.is/post/a-case-for-creative-rule-breaking

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Writer Wednesday 29: Word Clouds

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

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Quotes

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” -Ernest Hemingway

“Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.” -Meg Chittenden

“Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.” -Jack London

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Prompts

Thanks to http://www.writersdigest.com/prompts for this week’s prompts!

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You’re outside cutting your grass when you come across a large hole in the ground. You’ve never noticed the hole before, but it looks to be some sort of tunnel to another world. You decide to peek through and see where it leads, only it leads you to a pivotal moment in your past—and it’s giving you an opportunity to change it. Write this scene.

You had that dream again. The one where the beast with the drooping hands and wicked fangs stares you down from your window. Except the windows open this time—and you’re awake! What happens next?

You wake up in—wait this isn’t your room. Confused you step to the mirror and see that you’re famous actor Robert Downey Jr. How did you get here and what do you do?

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and more!

6 free writing podcasts: http://writerscircle.com/2013/08/6-free-writing-podcasts.html

How to Open: https://www.awpwriter.org/magazine_media/writers_notebook_view/15/how_to_open

Get the most out of the rest of your summer with this reading list from the TED community: http://blog.ted.com/2014/06/12/your-summer-reading-list-2014/

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Writer Wednesday 28: Totally Quotable

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

Writer Wednesday Tips and Quotes

 

Quotes

“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” -Sir Francis Bacon

“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel –it is, before all, to make you see. That –and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to all your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm –all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.” -Joseph Conrad

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” -Joan Didion

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Prompts

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Pick a line of dialogue from the list below and use it to start your piece. Change punctuation as needed.

“Have you seen my sweater?”

“It was too dark for me to see!”

“You don’t understand. I had to go.”

“Nothing is fair in love, war, or badminton.”

“There was only one left.”

“I could say sorry, but I wouldn’t mean it.”

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and more!

How Literature changes your brain for the better: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-literature-changes-your-brain-for-the-better

affect v. effect: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/affect-versus-effect?page=all

An editing check list! http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/grammar-girls-editing-checklist

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Writer Wednesday 27: 50 Shades of Writing

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

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How to be Happier in Your Current Relationship

 

Quotes

“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.” -Joseph Pulitzer

“Start early and work hard. A writer’s apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he’s almost ready to begin. That takes a while.” -David Eddings

“Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues —which takes years.” -Alex Haley

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“Tepid Water”

 

Prompts

Go on a date with your character (friend date or romantic date). Where would you go? What would happen? (Pro tip: stay away from 50 Shades of Grey for this prompt!)

Pull a name from a sign (relator signs anyone?!) and write that person’s back story. Bonus points if you pick a sign with two names (back to the relator sign since a lot of realtors have partners) and write their joint back story —are they married? Just work partners? Tell us their story.

Your character’s worst nightmare is happening.

You’re nude in town…why?

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“Building Castles”

and more!

Turn your handwriting into a font: http://www.yourfonts.com/

25 Ways to Fight Your Story’s Mushy Middle: terribleminds.com/ramble/2012/06/05/25-ways-to-fight-your-storys-mushy-middle 

You’re likely not a dummy when it comes to writing, but here is a Creative Writing for Dummies Cheat Sheet: www.dummies.com/how-to/content/creative-writing-for-

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Current Events in the Writing Life of Kyle

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Writer Wednesday 26: Perfecting POV

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! <3 Kyle

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Quotes

The first goal of writing is to have one’s words read successfully.” -Robert Brault

“Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers.” -T.S. Eliot

Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls.”Terri Guillemets

“Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.” -Samuel Johnson

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Prompts

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(Re-)Write a scene from the perspective of a minor character.

Change your protagonist’s age significantly (+or- 10 to 50 years).

Re-write a story or scene from a different POV.

Free write your main character’s back story for 5 to 10 minutes.

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Some blogging tips for all you bloggers out there

Free creative writing courses from top universities and other educational websites

Advice on writing short stories

Wondering how you choose what POV to write from? This site has some help for you.

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Have something to share? This is your chance to promote yourself, your blog, or even just a helpful site you came across. Submissions go here (and let’s hope they are writing related.)

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