Welcome back to the Flash Fiction Writing Challenge! If you haven’t already, you should check out our intro post for more details. The basics are: Pick one of the two image prompts below. (Don’t read my stories or anyone else’s until you’ve written yours!) Write an Everyday Vignette (200 words or less) or a Flash…
Welcome back to the Flash Fiction Writing Challenge! If you haven’t already, you should check out our intro post for more details. The basics are: Pick one of the two image prompts below. (Don’t read my stories or anyone else’s until you’ve written yours!) Write an Everyday Vignette (200 words or less) or a Flash…
Welcome back to the Flash Fiction Writing Challenge! If you haven’t already, you should check out our intro post for more details. The basics are: Pick one of the two image prompts below. (Don’t read my stories or anyone else’s until you’ve written yours!) Write an Everyday Vignette (200 words or less) or a Flash…
Welcome back to the second day of the Flash Fiction Writing Challenge! If you haven’t already, you should check out our intro post for more details. The basics are: Pick one of the two image prompts below. (Don’t read my stories or anyone else’s until you’ve written yours!) Write an Everyday Vignette (200 words or less)…
Welcome to the first day of the Flash Fiction Writing Challenge! If you haven’t already, you should check out our intro post for more details. The basics are: Pick one of the two image prompts below. (Don’t read my stories or anyone else’s until you’ve written yours!) Write an Everyday Vignette (200 words or less)…
The Flash Fiction Writing Challenge is finally here! The Spare Room Project is hosting the Challenge to help you get ready for NaNoWriMo. Here are the details! What is the Flash Fiction Writing Challenge? Getting into the habit of writing every day, even if it’s less than 300 words, is a great exercise. Every day…
Karley is one of the people who inspired us to start The Spare Room Project, and we’re excited to feature her writing today! Her Everyday Vignette Project is also the reason we are hosting a Flash Fiction Writing Challenge for the last week of October, to get ready for NaNoWriMo. We asked her a few…
Your NaNoWriMo goal every year is to write 50,000 words. So how do you get there? Scene Cards For the Win! We’ve talked about creating characters. You’ve worked on your 7 Point Story Structure. Now you have to fill in all the blanks. This is where scene cards come in. Using Scene Cards Boiled down,…
There are more methods to plotting a story than I can count. This year, I’m trying a new-to-me method for planning my NaNoWriMo story: Dan Wells’ 7 Point Story Structure. Never heard of it? Neither had I. What is the 7 Point Story Structure? The 7 Point Story Structure helps chart the rise and fall…
Some writers say they don’t control their characters: they have lives of their own. Sometimes they run away from us and do things that surprise us. Creating Characters You don’t have to let your characters run away from you. Knowing their backstory, their motivations, and their flaws and weaknesses will help you get ready…