Category: Writing Tips

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. <3 Kyle

Quotes

“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning:  I wanted to know what I was going to say.”  -Sharon O’Brien

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.” -Vladimir Nabakov

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” -William Wordsworth

 

Prompts

Your wish becomes somebody’s command.

Your friend suddenly decides they are in love with you.

Somebody close to you will tell your secret.

Fictionalize an event that happened to someone close to you.

 

and more!

Neil Gaimns Eight Rules of Writing

How to Rewrite

A recipe for some yummy editing

For when times get tough: Random book title generator (maybe this could even be a means for choosing the next story you’ll write!)

…more, more, more!

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.)

Looking for more prompts and inspiration? Check out previous Writer Wednesdays!

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Write on!

 

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. <3 Kyle

Quotes

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

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” -George Orwell

“Easy reading is damned hard writing.” -Anonymous

 

Prompts

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A dull person suddenly becomes interesting.

Name something. Start there.

A character walks into the kitchen after a long day and finds something on the table that isn’t supposed to be there.

 

and more!

Want some background noise while you write? How about some timed rainfall?

Send future you an email!

Participate by getting your copy of my eBook Facing the Tide at Smashwords. Trust me, this week is the week to do it. HINT HINT.

 

…more, more, more!

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.)

Looking for more prompts and inspiration? Check out previous Writer Wednesdays!

Spread the love! Like me on Facebook and follow me on Twitter. Maybe Tumblr is more your speed? Let’s join forces on Pinterest as well!

Write on!

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. <3 Kyle

Quotes

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.  How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?  For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone.  That is where the writer scores over his fellows:  he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.”  -Vita Sackville-West

“I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.”  -James Michener

“The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend.”  -Isaac Bashevis Singer

“What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.” -Burton Rascoe

Prompts

Why did you do it?

Write a haiku about today.

Forgive and forget. I think.

and more!

100 character development questions

Behind the name (get the meaning behind your characters’ names)

Is lineage important to the story you want to tell? Create a lineage chart!

 

…more, more, more!

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.)

Looking for more prompts and inspiration? Check out previous Writer Wednesdays!

Spread the love! Like me on Facebook and follow me on Twitter. Maybe Tumblr is more your speed? Let’s join forces on Pinterest as well!

Write on!

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. <3 Kyle

Quotes

“Your work is to discover your work, and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” -Buddha

“A person is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“When you have many excuses not to do your work, as yourself what guarantee you have of another chance to do what needs to be done. Time lost is lost for good…Wake up and stop the excuses; they never made sense before and do not make sense now. Laziness and procrastination have never worked in a sound and helpful way. It is only sound and helpful to get things moving.” -The Venerable Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche

“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

 

Prompts

A little different today: Write a piece of any type using all the words (person, place, and thing) from any given prompt below.

1. Librarian, swanky hotel, and a fake mustache.

2. Nutritionist, bell tower, and a red diary

3. Abstract painter, farm, and a discarded boot.

4. Model, petting zoo, and copper wire

5. Teacher, cruise ship, and 3 lucky marbles.

More

Pixar’s 22 rules of story telling

Looking for a gift for your favorite writer?

Make a family tree for your character(s)

 

…more, more, more!

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.)

Looking for more prompts and inspiration? Check out previous Writer Wednesdays!

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Write on!

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! [P.S. Did you try out one of the prompts below? Leave a link to your post in the comments –I would love to read it!]

Quotes

“Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.” -Lillian Hellman

“Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don’t try to be perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there’s a chance you’ll never get past the first chapter.” -Iain Banks

“The only cure for writer’s block is insomnia.” -Terri Guillemets

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

Prompts

{{Have prompts you would like to see featured on a Writer Wednesday? Submit them here.}}

[Maybe you’ll notice a theme with these as we are nearing Valentines Day…]

A twinkling eye can mean many things. Start with a twinkle in someone’s eye and see where it takes you.

Write a poem about a first romantic experience or encounter.

You finally break free of the friend zone. How do you do it?

Write a sex scene and make it funny.

More

Shameless plug: This Saturday, I will be having a drawing for a free, SIGNED copy of my first novel, Facing the Tide, which will become available as a paperback on that day. All you have to do is like my page on Facebook, then sit back and wait until the drawing. It’s that easy. Don’t forget to share the love with your friends! They too like FREE things, right? And everyone wants to be a winner.

Inspiration comes from various places. Check out what inspired some of these songs! Who knows, maybe inspiration will strike you as well

23 epic literary love tattoos

How to write a love song (cause we’re all looking to branch out a little, right?)

…more, more, more!

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.)

Looking for more prompts and inspiration? Check out previous Writer Wednesdays!

Spread the love! Like me on Facebook and follow me on Twitter. Maybe Tumblr is more your speed? Let’s join forces on Pinterest as well!

Write on!

 

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. <3 Kyle

Quotes

“I was worried about the book’s ending while I was writing, but I told myself to have faith, and that if I stayed true to the characters, the story would finish itself.” -Elizabeth Strout

“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 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

 

Prompts

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An argument at Sunday dinner

Your character is being followed

The significant thing your significant other keeps from you

That day in Paris

Get a package/can of one of your favorite  foods, and look at the ingredients. Use every ingredient in your  writing

 

More

Character exercises (writing prompts to help you get to know your character better)

Get sympathy from your readers while still having character growth and flaws. Tips on how to do this without losing your readers.

Need a brief (note: don’t get addicted!), calming activity? Draw some interactive generative art at  http://weavesilk.com/

 

 

…more, more, more!

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.)

Looking for more prompts and inspiration? Check out previous Writer Wednesdays!

Spread the love! Like me on Facebook and follow me on Twitter. Maybe Tumblr is more your speed? Let’s join forces on Pinterest as well!

 

Write on!

 

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think!

Quotes

“What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.”  -Logan Pearsall Smith

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” -Anton Chekhov

“A metaphor is like a simile.”  -Author Unknown

 

Prompts

{{Have prompts you would like to see featured on a Writer Wednesday? Submit them here.}}

The nation is controlled by…

I was born…

The most beautiful smile I ever saw…

and you thought dragons didn’t exist…

 

…more, more, more!

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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Write on!

The start of a new trend for this blog: Writer Wednesday! Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think!

Quotes

“My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.” -John D. Macdonald

“We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.” -Anne Lamott

 

Prompts

You are a pirate. Describe your perfect day.

Fix the plot of the worst movie you have ever seen.

Write a love letter to a person you dislike.

 

More

Tips for outlining your plot

Wondering how to create a compelling plot? Here are some tips!

Fantasy world building

 

…more, more, more!

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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Write on!

The start of a new trend for this blog: Writer Wednesday! Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think!

Quotes

“Writing something down often works as a magnet for other thoughts.” -Marcia Golub

“The main question to a novel is –did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not –story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.” -Sydney Smith

 

Prompts

Two guys walk into a bar…

You realize you have inadvertently become a stalker.

Think of a person you despise. Now describe all of the wonderful things about that person.

More

Need help with the middle of your story? Here is some guidance

World building!

Feeling stressed? Take a moment

 

…more, more, more!

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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Write on!