A Promise Kept and A Teaser Given

Recently, I’ve been both distracted by events out of my control and guilty of procrastination in regards to the writing of my novella. This was bothering me a little bit, until I was reminded about this post by Robert Hruzek.

As such, I made a pledge on Twitter that I would have either the prologue [...] Continue Reading…

The Purpose of a RolePlay Post

I was looking through a few of the old tutorials I had written over on RolePlay Gateway, and spotted this one. It’s a good edition to be added here, I’ve decided. As such, below is a revised version of the tutorial. While designed specifically for RolePlaying, replace ‘post’ with ‘chapter’ and I think it’s [...] Continue Reading…

A Break Can Be A Good Thing

For just short of two weeks, I’ve been at a friend’s house. As such, I’ve been able to take a break from most of my writing. This blog (though I did manage to get a couple posts published), my novel, and my short story.

While my flow has been disturbed, I believe the break was [...] Continue Reading…

Battling Writer’s Block The Easy Way

All writers know of, and dread, writer’s block. That sudden lack of inspiration, a depletion of creativity. A costing of money, even. It can be one of the great banes of writers’ lives, and is never at all welcomed. So, how can we battle it? How can we unblock our creative pipes?
Try This Simple [...] Continue Reading…

A Change of Perspective

This is a part of my Writing From A Different Focus group-write project. Here, I went for a roleplay post style of writing, but while also shifting the focus away from what would be ‘my’ character. Taking on the role and perspective of a minor, or even unseen, character, I am pushing my boundaries [...] Continue Reading…

Writing From A Different Focus

Sometimes, as a writer, it is far too easy to remain within a defined comfort zone. Whether it be a particular genre of writing, a specific style or a point of view that is essentially the same, we generally are proficient within our writing comfort zones. But as we try to grow as writers, [...] Continue Reading…

A Personal Essay

Terry Heath recently gave a writing prompt at his blog:
Spend an afternoon in a location (or reflect on one where you’ve been). Explore it thoroughly, then recreate an actual scene you experienced where something you’ve observed ran in strong contradiction with what you expected in this location. Reveal the subjects observed by appearance, action, [...] Continue Reading…

Characters: An Alternative Creation Story

This is yet another post in response to my Twitter survey, suggested by George Angus over at Tumblemoose Writing Services. I had actually been planning a post similar to this as part of my reality in fiction theme I’ve been running over the past week or so. George had made the request of looking [...] Continue Reading…

Community Writing: Roleplay

This is the second suggestion made to me on Twitter for what people would like to see on here. Suggested by Joanna Young over at Confident Writing. Very focused on community, it was no surprise that Joanna made this great suggestion.

Roleplaying at its core is taking control of a single character among many to [...] Continue Reading…

Spring Cleaning for Your Desk and Mind

Yesterday on Twitter I ran a little survey about what people wanted to see on the blog. I got a pretty good response, and this is one of the ideas suggested to me. The suggestion came from Andrew Hayes and I felt it was a fantastic suggestion.

The days are getting longer, the weather warmer [...] Continue Reading…

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