So this was about publishing options. There are a ton of options today, from old-school sending a manuscript to a big publisher to e-books on Amazon, Barnes and Nobel, and more. The best thing to do is do a search and find the approach you want to take. The assignment for this was to write […]
The lesson this time was about writer’s resources. Groups, websites, etc that cater to or provide a place for writers to get together and talk about writing. The assignment was to select a writing prompt and write about it. I wrote about what it’s like working from home in tech at a large company, well […]
This lesson was about ways to come up with ideas for writing when you’re struggling to come up with stuff to write about. It covers 6 methods The lesson was to pick two of these and use them to come up with stories. They had to be at least three paragraphs. I used dictionary and […]
Writer’s block is the block where all the writers live. It’s usually identifiable by the untrimmed lawns and dead plants. No, writer’s block is when a writer can’t seem to find the words for the story. There are a lot of possible causes and a lot of things you can do to try to overcome […]
This lesson is about editing your work. Editing is something I’ve really come to both love and hate. I have been working on a story for some time and have gone back multiple times to Edit it. Usually after learning something or noticing something about what I was reading and realizing I probably didn’t do […]
This lesson covered drama, scripts, and screenplays. This is fundamentally different writing from the other types because it’s intended as direction, and dialog, and the vision is actually set and doesn’t need to be described. Dramas are broken into Acts and Scenes and typically consist of 5 main scenes Prologs and Epilogs used to be […]
This lesson was about writing articles and blog posts. The key takeaways are: The assignment was to take an existing article I read that day and rewrite it with our own spin … I don’t read the news, nor do I read many articles. As I’ve pointed out, reality sucks so I avoid it most […]
Poetry is … hard. It requires emotions or perhaps more accurately the ability to share emotions. Something I’m not particularly good at. I tried Chat GPT, asking it to create a poem for me, but even I could tell it was juvenile and contrived. So, I put on my big-boy pants and gave it my […]