by Suzanne Lieurance Getting feedback on your manuscript can feel like stepping into cold water—you know it’ll be good for you, but it still makes you gasp. Every writer dreams of hearing that their story is brilliant and ready for the world. But a real critique usually contains suggestions, questions, and challenges—and those can sting….
If you want to become a professional writer (meaning, you’ll eventually get paid for writing), then the most important habit you need to develop is the habit of writing on a regular basis. That doesn’t mean you need to write everyday. But once you start writing regularly, you’ll probably find that you are writing everyday or at least most days. With that in mind, here is this month’s writing challenge.
Here are 7 fresh creative writing prompts for the week ahead. Monday’s Prompt – The Voice Behind the Wall Your character hears a faint voice through a wall in their apartment building. It doesn’t sound like a neighbor—and it seems to know things it shouldn’t. Tuesday’s Prompt – The Raincoat Left Behind At a coffee…
Here are some more tips from Simon Rose to help you with your writing. You can also find great advice in The Children’s Writer’s Guide, The Children’s Writer’s Guide 2, and The Time Traveler’s Guide. Realistic Settings Any novelist, whether they’re writing for children or adults, must invent a completely imagined world and the creation…
Here are 7 fresh creative writing prompts for the week ahead—designed to inspire grounded, character-driven stories with a spark of surprise or emotional depth. Monday’s Prompt – The Group Text Your character is added to a group chat with four strangers. No one knows who started it, and none of them are willing to leave….
Here is another tip from Simon Rose to help you with your writing. You can also find great advice in The Children’s Writer’s Guide, The Children’s Writer’s Guide 2, and The Time Traveler’s Guide. While your novel may very well contain a moral or theme that you’d really like to get across, don’t be tempted…
Here are 7 fresh creative writing prompts for realistic fiction, one for each day of the week. These are grounded in everyday life but invite emotional depth, personal conflict, and character growth. Monday’s Prompt – The Misdelivered Meal A takeout order shows up at your character’s door, but they didn’t place it. The receipt has…
Monday’s Prompt – The Season That Skipped Your character wakes up and realizes autumn has vanished. One day it was crisp and golden, the next it’s full winter. No one else notices. What happened to the season—and why are they the only one who remembers it? Tuesday’s Prompt – The Elevator That Lied In a…
Here are some more tips from Simon Rose to help you with your writing. You can also find great advice in The Children’s Writer’s Guide, The Children’s Writer’s Guide 2, and The Time Traveler’s Guide. How Old Should Your Characters Be? In novels for young readers, children generally prefer not to follow the adventures of…
by Suzanne Lieurance Utilizing the law of attraction to become a successful writer presents several challenges, often related to how you interpret and apply this law. Here are some of the biggest challenges you might face as a writer: Understanding the Law of Attraction. The law of attraction is based on the idea that positive…
This month’s challenge is to write a short Christmas romance to market next month – just in time for the holidays!
by Suzanne Lieurance As writers, we often don’t realize how much our limiting beliefs shape the way we approach the page. These limiting beliefs for writers—like “I’m not good enough,” “no one will read this,” or “I’ll never get published”—can quietly hold us back for years. They keep us stuck in self-doubt, afraid to share…
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