You finally finished that book and it looks perfect. You’ve reread it so many times you couldn’t change a word and now your mind is in a whirl. What can I do to make it shine? Am I missing something? I found a free online editor that helps. Their premium service is $35.00 per year which still isn’t too bad for the help you get. You can find it at http://prowritingaid.com/
Have you ever sat there staring at your monitor wondering where your writing project is going next? Should your main character just jump off a cliff and end it all.
I find stepping away from the project and writing something else helps. Here are a few places where you can get free writing prompts.
http://www.jc-schools.net/write/create.htm
Have you ever been at lost for a character’s name?
or maybe a pen name for yourself?. I found a website
where you can pick the nationality, size of the family
and then pick first, middle and last names and even
suggest what career they might have.
There have been times when I have created a family
and then used them as writing prompt for a story.
Try it for yourself at http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/the-sims.php
Everyone has a memoir in them, but can you do it in six words? www.smithmag.net/sixwords has a contest for entering a six word memoir about a special time in your life. They also have weekly caption contests. The winner gets a fifty dollar gift card from Shutterfly. The latest contest ends March 15th. My six words to you. “Take the plunge and enter now.”
I found a fun online drawing program that could be used to design a book cover. I used it recently for my ebook on Amazon. Check it out at http://www.gamesgames.com/game/Pencil-Madness.html. The image below shows a sampling of what it has it offer.
What I really like about it, is the fact that you can down load the picture as a jpeg to your computer.
Here is a contest that I thought would be fun to enter. The deadline is April 15th. Can you write the worst opening line to a novel? If you can then you may be the winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest. Just write the worst opening you can think of and go to http://www.bulwer-lytton.com
I think sometimes it’s fun just to get away from trying to come up with that perfect line.
Just submitted an ebook for Kindle via Amazon. Does anyone have experience with this?
An interactive story for the young or
or the young at heart. Recommended
reading for third through fifith grade.
Short stories and other artistic endeavors 