Day 6 (2017) is The Point of No Return My protagonist definitely wants to refuse his call to adventure. How will he try to wriggle his way out of a request from the police? I highly recommend working through today’s prompts. They inspired me to explore new areas of character development. #vss365: trim He had fearedContinue reading “How to write the point of no return #NaNoWriMo 2019 Day 6”
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#NaNoWriMo 2019 Day 5 – The Refusal
Continuing yesterday’s exploration of things that make me say, “What is that and what is it for?” I’m going to go with part of a lampshade? There’s gotta be a story as to why it’s in the lake, right? I hadn’t thought much about stagnant water on my abandoned property, but in this area, IContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo 2019 Day 5 – The Refusal”
#NaNoWriMo 2019 Day 4: Exploring the antagonist
This morning, because my story is about an abandoned property, I had some fun taking pictures of settings and things that make me say: What is that and what is that for? Like above: What is that pan for and what is that shiny liquid and what is that random hose for? If these objectsContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo 2019 Day 4: Exploring the antagonist”
#NaNoWriMo 2019 Day 3: Playing with my prompts
Day 3 2017 is the call to adventure. Set-up, catalyst, debate. My main character has to decide if he’s going to run and hide, or head back to his childhood home. #vss365: grate Kirk saw something sparkle under the grate. He got down on his knees and pulled aside the rusted metal. He recognized theContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo 2019 Day 3: Playing with my prompts”
#NaNoWriMo 2019 Day 2: Playing with all my prompts
Happy National Novel Writing Month! How did your first day go? Unlike last year, I’m healthy, relaxed and in a quiet state for writing. Until this morning, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do here at Experience Writing during this NaNoWriMo. I took a look back at what I’ve done over the years andContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo 2019 Day 2: Playing with all my prompts”
#Writober Day 18: The first time you were disappointed
#OctPoWriMo Today’s OctPoWriMo theme is The first time you were disappointed. Life’s disappointments come early I got too big too big for the carrier on a hike too big for the seat on the back of her bike too big to be carried asleep from the car too big to play airplane or horsey orContinue reading “#Writober Day 18: The first time you were disappointed”
#Writober 2019 Day 10: Touch
#OctPoWriMo Today’s OctPoWriMo theme is Touch. Today was my first prompt for OctPoWriMo. I hope it inspired. I wrote a post about touch back when I started this blog and did a series on exploring the senses. Here are a couple exercises I created to explore touch, if you’re interested in exploring your senses forContinue reading “#Writober 2019 Day 10: Touch”
Are You Ready for #Writober?
October is almost here and I’m excited. I enjoy many fun writing events in October. And this year I’ve added the planning pages and submissions, and The Writer’s Games. It’s going to be a very busy month here at Experience Writing. Writing Challenges Short Stories The Writer’s Games‘ second session is half over. I justContinue reading “Are You Ready for #Writober?”
Revising with scene cards
Hello everyone. It appears my hiatus is over as I’m excited to get back to Experience Writing. But I’m not going to get back to the planner pages quite yet. While I took an extended break from blogging and social media, I finally found the excitement and energy I needed to return to revising myContinue reading “Revising with scene cards”
“Are You Guilty of Isms?” inspires a new game of Pessimistic Moustache
While reading the article “Are You Guilty of Isms” at Psychology Today, I realized I hadn’t played Pessimistic Moustache in a while. Pessimistic Moustache is a game I made up inspired by the wonderfully descriptive phrase penned by Agatha Christie. The idea is to use an ism (like pessimism, thus pessimistic) to describe things. DianaContinue reading ““Are You Guilty of Isms?” inspires a new game of Pessimistic Moustache”
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