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  • 5-Minute Writing Exercises
    Writing Exercise #50: “Now that it’s just us, and everything’s out in the open, there’s just one thing I want to know.”

    Writing Exercise #50: “Now that it’s just us, and everything’s out in the open, there’s just one thing I want to know.”

    “Now that it’s just us, and everything’s out in the open, there’s just one thing I want to know.” I had never in my life wished for a battle more than I did right now. But Jack and I had destroyed the enemy. We had won. I should be celebrating,…

    July 31, 2025
  • Questions for Authors
    Questions for Authors #25: What are your goals as a writer?

    Questions for Authors #25: What are your goals as a writer?

    July 31, 2025
  • 5-Minute Writing Exercises
    Writing Exercise #49: Write a story using future tense.

    Writing Exercise #49: Write a story using future tense.

    He will wake up alone and remember he didn’t pick up his wife last night. He will call her repeatedly. She will not answer. He will call her mother to ask her where his wife is. His mother-in-law will not know and after a grueling 15-minutes of questions from the…

    July 30, 2025
  • Questions for Authors
    Questions for Authors #24: Have you participated in any writing contests? Did you win? What was the experience like?

    Questions for Authors #24: Have you participated in any writing contests? Did you win? What was the experience like?

    July 30, 2025
  • 5-Minute Writing Exercises
    Writing Exercise #48: “After all was said and done…”

    Writing Exercise #48: “After all was said and done…”

    “After all was said and done, more was said than done.”  That’s what the poster on the wall says.  My job thinks it helps morale to have the funny versions of the motivational posters hanging around the office rather than the originals.  Steven Covey, I think they’re by.  What management…

    July 29, 2025
  • Questions for Authors
    Questions for Authors #23: Give your thoughts on the “compelling first line” idea. (The idea that the first line of any novel must be the most compelling or a reader will DNF.)

    Questions for Authors #23: Give your thoughts on the “compelling first line” idea. (The idea that the first line of any novel must be the most compelling or a reader will DNF.)

    July 29, 2025
  • 5-Minute Writing Exercises
    Writing Exercise #47: Perfection

    Writing Exercise #47: Perfection

    Perfection. That was the only way Leona could describe Ewan. He moved like a cool lake and spoke like a sonnet. And every morning when she woke up and looked into her husband Owen’s sleeping face, she hated herself for even daring to think about another man. So what if…

    July 28, 2025
  • Questions for Authors
    Questions for Authors #22: Have you ever done a NaNoWriMo?

    Questions for Authors #22: Have you ever done a NaNoWriMo?

    Did you complete it? What did you learn during the process?

    July 28, 2025
  • 5-Minute Writing Exercises
    Writing Exercise #46: You have insomnia. What are you doing while the rest of the world is asleep?

    Writing Exercise #46: You have insomnia. What are you doing while the rest of the world is asleep?

    10pm: The wife is nagging me because I won’t see a doctor about my insomnia. I nag her about moving from Alaska, where it doesn’t get dark for parts of the year, to moving back to Vegas, where I loved living. 12am: The wife has finally decided to take a…

    July 27, 2025
  • Questions for Authors
    Questions for Authors #21: Do you have any author coaches? Who are they? What have you learned from them? (These do not have to be people you know personally. They could be people you follow who give great advice and have work to help authors that you’ve read.)

    Questions for Authors #21: Do you have any author coaches? Who are they? What have you learned from them? (These do not have to be people you know personally. They could be people you follow who give great advice and have work to help authors that you’ve read.)

    July 27, 2025
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