DO YOU FEEL THE CALL TO ADVENTURE? WATCH YOUR BACK - SOMEONE MAY BE LISTENING IN - WHO WANTS TO KEEP YOU -FROM ANSWERING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyeAZeDyrGQ
PICTURE WRITING PROMPT – WIRETAPPING YOUR CALL TO ADVENTURE
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
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4LSUtBmj2byq8LJXH4KkVo?si=8c0f406d232a4a50 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... Continue Reading →
WRITING PROMPT – “It’s really not that you can’t see the forest for the trees…”
Won't you look up at the skylineAt the mortar, block, and glassAnd check out the reflections in my eyesSee they always used to be thereEven when this all was grassAnd I sang and danced about a high-rise And you were laughing at my helmet hatLaughing at my torch Go ahead you can laugh all you... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdiu-gYyLhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQE7AWiFo9s&list=PLTJO2cwX5L0aAOR-h36HJuImuf2xEzu12
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... Continue Reading →
GETTING PUBLISHED! Going Into the New Year 2021 // Join the Monarch Writers DISCORD CHAT GROUP
As writers, we have to consider not just the work we do on our projects -creating worlds, characters, and plots- but also must take consideration of marketing our stories to the world. So let's talk a little bit about trying to get our work published going into this new year 2021, and make a resolution... Continue Reading →
In Search of the Present – On Writing and the Mindful Now
I am at a point in my work on my novel project right now where I am having a lot of ideas, and want to keep track of them. I already do multiple bulletin boards and note taking methods, from notebooks as I read to apps like Google Keep which is easy to stay on... Continue Reading →