Writing Exercises 2/2

Sep 1, 20193 min read

Getting Past The Blank Page

We all know the feeling ... you sit down at your desk, a cup of coffee or tea (or something stronger) in hand, and a fresh page in front...

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Dec 31, 20182 min read

Conjuring Autobiographic Magic

By Erik Day The anthology is ready to take its next leap forward! The collection of stories has eight amazing authors, each of whom have...

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Dec 22, 20182 min read

Writing a Christmas Calamity

By Erik Day Building an incident… One of the great Christmas movies is the original Die Hard. With Bruce Willis as New York cop John...

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Oct 15, 20188 min read

A Story's Phenomenal Cosmic Power… in an Itty-Bitty Living Space

By Erik Day Whatever stage a story is in, from the germ of an idea to mid-Work In Progress, to a finished manuscript collecting...

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Oct 9, 20182 min read

Plotting the plot (or, How to Write a Logline)

Last weekend we began the first of four exercises designed to help you think about National Novel Writing Month. Or, as we have come to...

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Jan 11, 20181 min read

From The Archives

When you find a story in an old writers’ group notebook from 2003 and realize by the first line of it that it must have been a wacky...

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