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    Writing Exercise #30: You’ve witnessed someone get hit by a bus. What are you thinking/feeling?

    Writing Exercise #30: You’ve witnessed someone get hit by a bus. What are you thinking/feeling?

    Oh my God! Oh my God! Did you see that? He ran right into the…Oh my God. I can’t even look at this. He ran right into the bus. Where did he even come from? He just ran across the street from out of nowhere. Oh my God? Did the…

    July 11, 2025
  • Questions for Authors
    Questions for Authors #5

    Questions for Authors #5

    Who are your top 5 writing heroes? What is your favorite work by them?

    July 11, 2025
  • 5-Minute Writing Exercises
    Writing Exercise #29: Every single light represents a person

    Writing Exercise #29: Every single light represents a person

    Sometimes at night, Mom and I would lie out in the lawn and look up at the stars. I’d try to guess the constellations. To this day, I can still find most of them. “Every single light represents a person,” she told me. “When that light goes out, it’s gone…

    July 10, 2025
  • Questions for Authors
    Questions for Authors #4: What do you add to your genre?

    Questions for Authors #4: What do you add to your genre?

    July 10, 2025
  • 5-Minute Writing Exercises
    Writing Exercise #28: Write a poem

    Writing Exercise #28: Write a poem

    Morning came in title onlyThe sky remained black as nightNo one breathes like thisNo one lives like this///From the shadows poured tearsOf black wax. Hot and sticky.Like monsters from the air,A commune of bodies waitingFor more///But what did we have to give?We were waiting too?Our bodies aren’t needed hereNot for…

    July 9, 2025
  • Questions for Authors
    Questions for Authors #3: Why do you write in the genre you write?

    Questions for Authors #3: Why do you write in the genre you write?

    July 9, 2025
  • Questions for Authors
    Questions for Authors #2: Why do you write? (We know it’s not money. Most writers have a day job.)

    Questions for Authors #2: Why do you write? (We know it’s not money. Most writers have a day job.)

    July 8, 2025
  • 5-Minute Writing Exercises
    Writing Exercise #27: Write about your favorite quotation.

    Writing Exercise #27: Write about your favorite quotation.

    My favorite quote of all time has to be from Madonna. “People don’t say what they want so they don’t get what they want.” Ever since I read that a few years ago, I’ve been far more honest not just with people, but with myself as well. It’s like my…

    July 8, 2025
  • Questions for Authors
    Questions for Authors #1

    Questions for Authors #1

    Introduce yourself. (What’s your name? What do you write? How long have you been writing? Etc.)

    July 7, 2025
  • 5-Minute Writing Exercises
    Writing Exercise #26: You’re on a deserted island. The one thing you’d give anything to have with you has been destroyed. What do you have now?

    Writing Exercise #26: You’re on a deserted island. The one thing you’d give anything to have with you has been destroyed. What do you have now?

    Well, since the Starship Enterprise has been destroyed, which was the only thing I wanted, I guess all I have now is a phaser. I’m going to set that puppy to kill and go hunting. …For fish because I don’t kill and clean mammals. I think fish would be more…

    July 7, 2025
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