I gave my workshop participants a writing prompt last weekend, and decided to share some of their responses. Prompts are a great way to stimulate story ideas and overcome writer’s block. I’m sharing them because it’s enlightening to read other writers’ takes on an idea – and also because they’re plain good fun! Here are …
It’s a mistake most of us make: overusing adverbs in an attempt to make our writing sound better, slicker. It doesn’t work. Writing that suffers from adverb overload is often weak, verbose and hard to read. It tries too hard to impress. In the process, it loses the magic spell that a tightly written piece …
When it comes to writing – like most things in life – practice makes perfect. Okay … maybe not perfect. That’s too much to expect and I doubt it exists anyway! But practice certainly makes us much better writers, and that’s enough to be getting on with. So what are your writing habits? Do you …
Stella Tarakson 