National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo 2017 officially kicked off today. With a goal of writing 50,000 words in 30 days NaNoWriMos take on a huge task. If you have hopped on this crazy writing train or are thinking of joining the movement, here are 11 tips to help you succeed. Tip #1 Start Writing... Continue Reading →
Halloween always brings out my creative side and keeps my Muse working overtime, but if you’re having trouble getting started on this All Hallows' Eve, I’ve got a list of writing prompts to help you get started. Your pumpkin starts talking to you after you carve it. Tell the story of Halloween from the candy’s... Continue Reading →
I’ve seen this question posed in several writing groups lately by people who want to become writers, “How do you start writing?” As if there is some top-secret magic trick that we writers have been holding out on the world. The secret is... you just start writing. That’s it. If you want to write, you... Continue Reading →
Flash Fiction: After the War © Michelle C. Hilstrom 2015 Before I left for The War, my daughter and I used to go to the park together while my wife attended her Bible Studies class at the church. My daughter loved to swing at that park. She’d swing so high she’d ask me if she... Continue Reading →
Some fellow writer friends challenged me to write for ten minutes about a sleepy zombie. I thought a sleepy zombie sounded like something out of a child's bedtime story, so I decided to try and create a children's book. This as written purely as a writing challenge for myself as I have never written a... Continue Reading →
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