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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A Musician and a Writer Talk About ..When the Story Finds You… Projects That You Are Excited About But Seem Like They Don’t Want To Be Realized… Representation And Diversity.. And On Being Real Enough to Take Criticism And Keep Going
AN EPISODE OF THE IDIOSYNCRATIC PODCAST ‘I ONLY LISTEN TO THE MOUNTAIN GOATS’ TO INTRODUCE YOU PERFECTLY TO THE PREMISE – A MUSICIAN (John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats) TALKING TO A WRITER (Joseph Fink of Welcome to Nightvale and other projects) ABOUT CREATING ART AND ALL THE WEIRD WAYS AND MEANS OF MAKING THINGS […]
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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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Writing a Punchy Author Bio or Blurb for Yourself to Pitch Your Work as a Writer
“Sadly for books in the current times there are more writers than readers, so it seems.”― B.S. Murthy “I’m not so arrogant to think I’m the only guide someone needs … but I might be the guide that someone needs.”― Laura Anne Gilman In this piece I will gather some good advice from a few web resources on Writing […]
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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.
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Using “He said.” in your dialogue? – from Thepassivevoice.com
February 8, 2021 by PG From Dave Farland: I don’t often give actual tips on how to compose stories. I tend to focus my lessons on storytelling to things that you can’t learn elsewhere. Yet from time to time, it might be worthwhile to actually give a few technical tips. Today we will go over one on […]
