We held the grand re-opening of Extreme Writing Now yesterday, June 28, 2010, and although the site is still somewhat under construction, everyone had a blast. I thank each and every member. Without you guys, there would be only the empty and lonely halls of EWN. Halls that I really couldn’t fill. EWN is...
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Series Learn To Write» This week’s entry in the Sunday series, , maybe the most important entry in the entire series. At least I think so. Personally, I believe that any subject that involves creativity is a very had subject to teach and learn. Sure, we can study the mechanics of how to hold...
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Seriously, do you really believe you are not a writer? Come on, you know you have the will  to write, and most likely have enough life experiences to write something tearful or funny. Some of have even thought it would be cool to sit around in our jammies all day and write for a...
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His belittling was incessant. The worst names a woman can hear. Infractions spewed forth even while he chewed. Oh, how she’d like to smash that face into his glop! Sated, he stood up. His woman did too. She watched them leave the restaurant. Clutching the cold steel in her pocket, she was not far...
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Series Building A Short Story» Well, here we are at week 6 in our series, , and we are saying good-bye to flash fiction; never to bring this story back to its micro-fiction roots of the tale it started out as. A quick recap: we, and myself, wanted to get the creative juices flowing...
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Our series, Building A Short Story, pulls into the last station on the Flash Fiction Line. That's right, our 55 word fiction piece is about to experience the fourth word count doubling since we established it as the cornerstone for a short story.
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Well here we are, week 4 of our series, Building A Short Story, and we are now sitting on 440 words. This installment will be the next to the last step before we start plunging into the official short story realm.
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Welcome to the third installment in our series, Building a Short Story. If you have been following along, then you know that we started to build a short story by writing a 55 word fiction piece in the post The Micro-Fiction Cornerstone, and are attempting to create a
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Last week, we opened our series, Building a Short Story, by introducing a method of constructing a valid short piece from a micro-fiction, 55 word fiction to be exact, and rewriting by doubling the word count with each edit
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Micro-Fiction is often seen as a joke, but try and satisfy all the requirements of 55 word story, for example, and then tell me it's a joke. You need characters, plot and resolution, all in 55 words exactly.
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For what ever reason, Flash Fiction works best for me when I write it on the spur of the moment. Her Blue Ribbon is exactly the type of stuff I write best as the energy is flowing form that lucid spur.
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The blogging community I own and operate, Crabbysbeach, slid head first into a cement brick early this evening while I was working under the hood at one of the blogs. Funny thing, only the hub blog and several other blogs
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I struggled with creating fictional characters in that they all seemed two dimensional at best. For the most part, my characters seemed flat or like paper dolls. I made a discovery recently that seems to help me create and develop characters that are more alive and meaningful. I quit creating them with names and...
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How many times have you read a written post that someone says they are sorry they have let the blog go and promise they will pick it back up. Well, if read on, you are about to read another.
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How do you handle your blog comments? I'm not asking just about the ones that come into your own blog, but the comments you give as well.
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Three years ago I quit writing. Just up and stopped. The reasons I gave myself were all onion skinned veils that tried to cover up the fact that I was afraid.
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Way back in the stone ages of Internet marketing, one of the "must do's" for every marketer was to set up multiple accounts, one for every niche they were going to promote. The most widely quoted reason for this was to not water down one's authority on a single topic, because the belief was...
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The Internet is crowded and we're all yelling to be heard buy the only ones that hear us when we yell are the ones who are close; our friends. Yet, we have something to say and we want thousands to hear it, damnit!
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Lensmaster GrowWear makes us look where we should.
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