Spark Word

Today's Spark Word is:

PATCH.

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Do a modern day twist

on a classic fairy tale.

Tip To Try

If you have an over-packed schedule and your life is dictated by the scribbles on your calendar, then pen-in your writing time. Even if you can only manage a half hour per day, you’ll see a dramatic increase in your output. Squeezing writing time into your breaks and lunches at work can also help increase your daily word count. A ten-minute writing binge could mean a huge breakthrough in your plot or that witty line of dialogue you’ve been grasping for. Because some of our best writing ideas come when we’re involved in other activities, mini writing breaks scattered throughout the day can move your project along in small but significant steps.

Spark Word

Today's Spark Word is:

WISP.

Expert Advice

"Fill your paper

with the breathings

of your heart..."

~ William Wordsworth

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

While flipping through

your favorite home

decor magazine,

single out a room that

really speaks to you.

Develop a character

that lives in that space.

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about a

sweet addiction.

Spark Word

Today's Spark Word is:

FROLIC.

Tips To Try

As you read, do you ever come across a beautiful line of description or a clever turn of phrase that you wish to remember and aspire to? Try keeping an "Author Admiration" journal. All you need is a small notebook and a pen, and you're ready to jot down all those juicy bits as you happen across them. Anytime you feel that your own writing is coming across as lackluster and dry, simply immerse yourself in a page or two of your own, personalized creative brilliance-meter. You'll return to the page invigorated and inspired!

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about someone

who receives their

birthday wish, only to

discover it isn't at all

what they'd expected.

Expert Advice

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

~ Ray Bradbury

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about a bunch

of people who are all

trying to crowd into

a confined space.

Spark Word

Today's Spark Word is:

FADED.

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about a beggar who loves to hear himself sing.

Tips To Try

From the article "What's Your Perspective?" by Page Lambert in the September 2009 issue of The Writer magazine:

"Every character should want something, even if it's only a glass of water. Identify that glass of water for each character, and then let that desire color everything the character does and says."

Spark Word

Today's Spark Words is:

BEREFT.

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about someone
who receives
something other
than what they
ordered.

Expert Advice

If you’re going to be a writer,
the first essential is just to write.
Do not wait for an idea.
Start writing something
and the ideas will come.
You have to turn the faucet on
before the water starts to flow.
~ Louis L’Amour

Spark Word

Today's Spark Word is:

WHOLESOME.

Weekly Wednesday Writing Prompt

Write about someone
who still does something
the old-fashioned way
in remembrance of
someone dear.