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Writing Prompts September 20, 2017

Each month, Writer’s Dialog likes to offer our readers Prompts to encourage, motivate and inspire our creative writing juices. If you would like, you may choose one and write a paragraph or 3 to Share it with our community as a part of our dialog. Experiencing a writer’s block is a part of the writing process. Rather than getting frustrated, you may find it more productive to have a plan in place to handle such challenges. A part of that plan might include, setting your project temporarily aside and using a prompt to get your words flowing again. Choose one… Read More

Guest Post: Lessons From Novel No. 1

The One Thing We’ll Do in Novel No. 2 by: Whitney Jones and Julie Tyler Writing our first novels taught us each ONE BIG LESSON that we will carry into writing a second novel, and that we’re sharing exclusively with Writer’s Dialogue readers! We hope that you can learn from our mistakes so that your novel-writing experience is less… ahem… bumpy than ours! Hi, this is Whitney and Julie–the gals who run the writing blog FromNothingToNovel. We’re friends from grad school, exercise enthusiasts, writing buddies, and (sound fanfare) debut novel writers! We are currently on the hunt for literary agents… Read More

Discipline Is Not A Dirty Word – Let’s Set SMARTER Goals

Novelist by Night A novelist should write every day! An admirable goal that is often the advice given by successful and seasoned writers, including many of the authors I have been fortunate to interview. While this is a goal that we all may aspire, it is often unattainable. As Novelists by Night, I believe that we need to be flexible, within reason, in our SMARTER writing goals and routines. Many of us have full-time jobs, along with families to whom we are responsible. Sometimes the unexpected may occur during a day, that clearly must take precedence, like when little Johnny gets a… Read More

Writing Resources: Building Metaphors

Writing Flash Tools Isn’t it fun when you read about helpful tools that you are able to put to immediate use? Well, that is what The Writer’s Dialog has in mind for articles found in Writing Resources like the one you are about to read: Writing Resources: Building Metaphors and Similes. Remember when you were in school and your parents, or fellow students used flash cards to help when learning skills, such as the multiplication tables? Well get ready to “flash” some grammatical tools that will help make our writing more memorable, richer, and deeper. Let’s use our flash tools to add dimension,… Read More

Writing Prompts

So, here’s an idea…Why not take a break from your current writing project and choose one of the 5 Writing Prompts below. Write a paragraph or 3, and consider it an exercise for your art to share with our community in the Share Your Work section of our site. Two women who grew up as best friends could not have been more different from each other, physically and temperamentally. As they are about to enter adulthood, they are thrust into a situation that tears them apart. 9 years later, they are back home and living within a few miles of… Read More

Unexpected Love – Part 2

By: Elizabeth G Walzel To find: Part 1 of Unexpected Love, click here. As the wedding date and all of the festivities associated with a wedding approached, John could feel the enormity and the weight of the decision he was facing. He had to consider what it would mean to “the others” and what could possibly happen to Paige if she found them out. That is when he really began to sweat. John Sharp had tormented himself about deciding to call off the wedding. He thought he loved her, but when he realized that he had so very much at stake, and so much to loose, he… Read More

The Novelist by Night: We Can Do This!

There are more Novelists by Night than you may think. In fact, most novelists, I would suspect, at the very least, began as part-time writers who were also juggling their full-time jobs. Did you know that Nicholas Sparks was a former full time scholarship athlete at the University of Notre Dame? In fact, he still holds a track and field record at that same university. Mr. Sparks also spent four years coaching track and field athletes at a public high school. He wrote THE NOTEBOOK in six months! We Can Do This! Since THE NOTEBOOK, Mr. Sparks has written… Read More

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