Board Games that Inspire Writing
The murmur of countless alien tongues subsided as the chairman of the interstellar council called for order. The delegates…
October 11, 2016The murmur of countless alien tongues subsided as the chairman of the interstellar council called for order. The delegates…
October 11, 2016We discussed the first three suggestion to overcoming writing obstacles in an earlier blog. Run, walk, exercise – stir…
August 17, 2016The setting sold us. A property with mature trees and a creek running behind it. Even in March, with…
July 25, 2016The subject of creativity has always fascinated me. Where does it originate? How can I access more of it?…
July 2, 2016You may ask what the following three strategies have to do with creativity. I think we can all agree…
June 3, 2016Obstacles. Disguised in various ways, they reveal the same evil – blocks to what we want to achieve or…
June 2, 2016Welcome to The Creativity Kit! Each month tips and tools to help boost your creativity skills will be found…
May 3, 2016What do children’s publishers want? That is the question that all children’s writers long to have answered. What is…
April 11, 2016In honor of National Poetry Month (April), I thought we could take a few moments to explore writing a…
April 5, 2016When I was in India recently, our team leader told of an Indian child who asked her if the…
February 29, 2016When writing a speculative fiction novel, determine what the things of value are in your world. Water, food, shelter-building resources,…
February 7, 2016Regardless how fantastic the setting, the people in your book must treat their environment as commonplace. A character who…
November 28, 2015Thanks to my past teen self, I will never run out of book ideas. I spent those years writing pages…
August 25, 2015We’ve all been there. Deadlines are looming for our blog or our novels. A tingling in the pit of…
July 22, 2015Atheists believe all creatures evolved over countless millennia of bloodshed, allowing only the fittest members of a species to…
July 3, 2015