Tag: writing advice
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Weekly Writing Prompt – 10/24/2021 – 10/31/2021 – A Scene in a Philosophical Novel: Like a Surrealist Collage – Here We Are, at Long Last, In the Wild World.
Weekly Writing Prompt – 10/24/2021 – 10/31/2021 – Shadow – Light, Presence & Depart; Collage a Mess of Images/Ideas, Turning Too Much to Enough. This We Call Art. Guillaume Chiron is a French artist who enjoys making humorous collages inspired by domestic life in the 1950s. The urban context is invaded by characters enlarged in scale in a paradoxical way, […]
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You’re a Genius All the Time – Jack Kerouac’s 30 tips of ‘Belief and Technique for Modern Prose’ for Spontaneous Creative Writing
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy Submissive to everything, open, listening Try never get drunk outside yr own house Be in love with yr life Something that you feel will find its own form Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind Blow as deep as you want to blow Write what […]
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WRITING PROMPT – “It’s really not that you can’t see the forest for the trees…”
Go ahead you can laugh all you wantI got my philosophy [Keeps my feet on the ground]And I trust it like the ground [Ground]That’s why my philosophy [My phil–]Keeps me walking when I’m falling down [–osophy]
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MAY 2021 – Focus on Writing SETTING – Creating a World For Your Story To Live
In May The Monarch Writers are focusing on the idea of Setting and World. Whatever type of writing you are doing, you need to have some kind of focus on the scene beyond the immediate plodding plot. Where is your conversation between characters SET? What is the larger world like? What is going on in […]
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The Paris Review ‘MY FIRST TIME’ Series
The Paris Review’s “My First Time” video interview series. Writers talking about their first big work’s success and what it took. Watch the trailer for the series, and fifteen installments in the video and playlist below.