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Monday, 28 March 2005
Inspiring creativity website: Tera's Wish
Tera's Wish is an excellent source for inspiring creativity with an abundance of exercises, challenges, and ideas.

Posted by expat-writer at 5:55 PM GMT
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Thursday, 24 March 2005
inspiring website: French Toast Girl
I've discovered a fantastic website chock full of ideas and inspiration. It's called French Toast Girl and definitely worth bookmarking. The site owner is an artist called Elena Nazzaro and her ideas and art work are bursting with fun and creativity. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious.I think it's a great site to help jump-start writing ideas.

Posted by expat-writer at 3:05 PM GMT
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Wednesday, 23 February 2005
How blogs help writers
Topic: Blogging helps writers
I love blogging and I think it's useful for writers. Angela explains how blogging works to help writers at, How do blogs work? at Angela Booth's Writing Blog. Now I feel even better about blogging! Thanks, Angela!

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Wednesday, 9 February 2005
Everything You Need to Know About Writing
Topic: Stephen King link
Good advice from the author, Stephen King: Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully: in Ten Minutes via a link provided by growabrain:Books & Literature Archives

Posted by expat-writer at 12:39 AM GMT
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Monday, 7 February 2005

Topic: Writing Tips
The Creative Pen - Writing Tips are simple and worth remembering.

Posted by expat-writer at 2:08 PM GMT
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Sunday, 6 February 2005

Topic: Story starter
Thanks to Vikk Simmons at the writers path for providing a link to the story starter at elitelit.com

This is an example of one version of elements I got when I clicked on the start button:

My main character/protagonist is a female.
An event or situation in my story is a hunting accident.
An archetype present in my story is The Charmer.
A key object or symbol in my story is a garden bench.
My story will be set in an art gallery.
My story is about separation.

Posted by expat-writer at 7:00 PM GMT
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Wednesday, 2 February 2005

Topic: 10 Writing exercises
Ten writing exercises from writing coach, Jessica Page Morrell.

Posted by expat-writer at 5:16 PM GMT
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Topic: 15 prompts to kick start
For more ideas to help get your writing started, try 15 Prompts To Help Kick-Start Your Story.

Posted by expat-writer at 4:10 PM GMT
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Topic: 10 Creativity Kick Starts
These Ten Creativity Kick Starts are useful ideas.

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Saturday, 29 January 2005

Topic: Short Story Competition
The latest (Jan 26-Feb 2) Time Out London magazine has a Books Special with interesting articles such as a list of "Londoners' best-loved books" (London-related) and an article with advice and tips for new writers. There is also an interview with the author, Zadie Smith and an article about the famous novelist, Ian McEwan.

Also, there are details of the Time Out Short Story Competition:

It can be in any genre but it must not be more than 2000 words.

Short Story Competition, Time Out, 251 Tottenham Court Road, W1T 7AB

or email to books@timeout.com

Closing Date: April 30, 2005

The story judged to be the best will be published in Time Out later in the year.

Posted by expat-writer at 2:58 PM GMT
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