Tag: writing prompts

Choosing Stories for Your Memoir: 8 Questions to Ask Yourself

Filed in Writing Tips by Erika Bennett on August 25, 2020 • 0 Comments

Memoirs are the easiest to write because you have already lived the material, but they are also the most challenging to write because you have to find the balance between what stories you share and what information needs to be left out. Writing a memoir doesn’t mean you have to include every aspect of your […]

7 Tips For Overcoming Writer’s Block

Filed in Writing Tips by Daylin on August 4, 2020 • 0 Comments

If you’ve ever experienced any sort of writer’s block I’m sure you can agree it is a painful state of mind that’s often difficult to overcome. Where does writer’s block stem from anyway? Yale University psychologists Jerome Singer and Michael Barrios followed a group of diverse, “blocked” writers and concluded that there are four main causes […]

How to Create a Visual Experience in Your Writing

Filed in Writing Tips by Erika Bennett on June 11, 2020 • 0 Comments

When writing, it’s so easy to get bogged down with dialogue, plot lines, verb tense, and comma placement. We can get so caught up with that we can forget to push our creative boundaries. Becoming fixated on punctuation can cause our descriptions to go flat. Other times, we may avoid using symbolism in writing because […]

7 Tips To Stay Creative

Filed in Author Inspirations, Writing Tips by Daylin on April 23, 2020 • 0 Comments

Every-day life routines can start feeling mundane after a while. And if you’re like many of us, quarantining at home due to the current global pandemic COVID-19, life at home will definitely start feeling tedious pretty soon (if it’s not already). It’s important to shake things up a bit to stay sharp and full of […]

10 Ways to Rediscover Your Creative Flow

Filed in Ask the Editor by Erika Bennett on February 13, 2020 • 0 Comments

We’ve all experienced bouts of writer’s block or dips in our creative flow. Sometimes, I think that’s the brain’s way of telling us we’re overproducing and need to pull back the reigns a bit. For the most part, though, I believe writer’s block and a stagnant creative flow are because we start taking our creativity […]