As many of you know, I have a passion for prompts to spark my writing Muse. The last writers meeting's homework was to write a story using these parameters: Setting: A Haunted house, Character: A police officer, Theme: Friendship POV: An inanimate object. This is my...
Although, I've missed this celebratory day by nearly a week, it is still nice to think that we writers have our own day. You can visit the website for all the details. As you would have seen from my Tuesday blog post, I have been lucky enough recently to talk about my...
As many of my regular visitors know I rarely write poetry, however during Poetry Month in April of this year, I did write a few! The Writers Foundation of Strathcona County set out prompts every day under the main title for the contest - World on Fire. You could pick...
I'm often asked how do I come up with the ideas. I think this post may be of interest to writers and readers alike. One thing that sparks my imagination is a writing prompt. This can be a selection of words, a picture, the starting sentence, or a title. Recently I was...
Hello fellow writers and authors, as 2024 approaches, as always I ask what topics or subjects would you would like to see on these weekly posts? I can continue with 2022 themes, but also welcome your suggestions, so please comment below. Bibliophile’s Collective...
August 1st is a holiday here in Alberta, so it was nice to have an extra long weekend. I'm please to day my 'stalled' situation in the completion of book two of The Delphic Murders - The Tainted Search - was overcome and I managed to finish the manuscript. It is now...
As writers we are used to juggling many writing projects at the same time or the complete opposite - nothing! (Although, I have to say my mind is crowded with ideas most of the time in MUSE central!) These opposing states come with their own problems, each unique and...
Author Collaborative I was fortunate to be asked to write a guest post on Heather L. Barksdale's blog. My topic - utilizing prompts to spark an idea for a story. As many of you know I have used prompts in this way in the past, and am sure to use them in the future....
There are a number of ways that stories come to me, one is using writing prompts because they always spark ideas or images in my mind. Some result in a short story or, occasionally a poem, but others have become full blown novels. I recently responded to the prompt...