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| Url: | http://blog.writersdigest.com/promptly |
| Author(s): | Zac Petit |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | writing, writing prompts, blogs for writers |
| Description: | From Writer's Digest, get your creative juices flowing with Promptly, a lively writing prompt-driven community that aims to get your pen moving and keep it that way. Posts appear every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, offering flash-fiction prompts, activities and even some Q&As—in addition to positive reinforcement in the form of monthly giveaways to top stories. |
| Ratings |  (7 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 48 Followers |
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Tip on Writing for Money, Plus a Thanksgiving Prompt
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Here's the hot tip: No. 5 from the Top 20 Tips From WD in 2009 series:“I remind myself that my income is contingent on the pages I produce, and ifI don’t write pages I don’t get paid—and pretty soo...more |
2009-11-20
Q&A With Author Steve Almond: Literary Journals, the Perks of a Thousand Rejections
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Literary journals—If you’re like me, you’ve circled them in a bookstore at one time or another in your writing life, sniffing at their doors, dazzled by their contents, wondering what they’re all a...more |
2009-11-18
Stephen King on Creating Believable Bad Guys
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They’re not hard to spot: One-dimensional. Predictable. Occasionally drawing up half-heartedruses and doomsday scenarios, perhaps with a cigar and some maniacal laughter. Bad bad guys.So what’s a k...more |
2009-11-16
Mitch Albom: The Keys to a Memoir (Plus Prompt)
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Whenever my nonfiction gets personal and I write a column or essay featuring myselfas a character, I tend to really cut loose—and often end up with 3,000 words for a750-word piece. I’m powerless: A...more |
2009-11-13
Good Writing: Can it Be as Simple as Leaving Your Living Room?
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I’ll look down, and panic will strike when I realize my 3rd-grade penmanship, combinedwith an errant washing of my hands, has failed me: The list is gone.I tend to be a creature of routine and plot...more |
2009-11-09
Jennifer Crusie, Jerry Jenkins, Writing Communities and Tamagatchis
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Online writing communities: In some ways, I used to liken them to those digital petskids used to tote around, Tamagatchis. Roughly the size of an egg, you nurtured yourpuppy on a petite screen, whi...more |
2009-11-06
Burning Question: Pitch or Write On Spec? (Plus Prompt)
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In the world of journalism and freelance nonfiction writing, there are those (everyonefrom Hunter S. Thompson to some of my colleagues and writer friends) who say to never,ever, not even if you wer...more |
2009-11-04
Author Kelly L. Stone Riffs on Unlocking Creativity and Answers Your Questions
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Today is an excellent day at Promptly as we welcome author and licensed mental healthcounselor Kelly L. Stone to the blog. Alongside her novel Grave Secret, Kellyhas written Time to Write: More Tha...more |
2009-11-02
No Time for A Novel in a Month? How About a Literary Journal Challenge?
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They’re “The best of the mysterious, elusive things,” they're “A gateway to discoveringyour next favorite writer,” they can be “frequently dull, pretentious, willfully obscure,”they're “Vital to th...more |
2009-10-30
What Every Blogger Should Know (Plus Prompt)
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Blogging. Some professional writers loathe it, regarding it as a cheapening of theirart. Others adore it, and do it for the sheer love of the instant form. Some acceptit as a necessary evil in a pl...more |
2009-10-28
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