by Angie Powers | Jun 29, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Discoverability. It’s something that people who make video and throw it up on YouTube think about. And it doesn’t matter if it’s some kid in a bedroom in Wisconsin or a corporate committee working for Brawny paper towels. You make a video, you want people to find it...
by Devi S. Laskar | Jun 28, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Here’s the trick, here’s the “skinny:” If you love a particular line or phrase, if you’re coddling a particular scene or character, then you have to give these prized precious things a nice shove…into rush-hour traffic. Kill these things, swiftly, with no remorse and...
by Devi S. Laskar | Jun 27, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
The other day I met a woman who had heard about my art a day challenge and wanted to do something creative every day. She is not a self-proclaimed writer, and hadn’t really worked in any fine arts in years. “I spend every day taking care of family, and worrying about...
by Elizabeth | Jun 26, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
My children demand stories of me. They call them “make-up” stories and they do not mean making up from a fight. They mean the battle itself of creating something from nothing, of piecing together characters and throwing problems at them and rallying those characters...
by Angie Powers | Jun 22, 2012 | Featured
One mistake that newer writers often make is putting the reader in whiteboard world, one that is not particularly clear or worse completely absent. The voice might strong, the interiority VERY strong, the dialog sparkling and witty. And setting — gone. I can’t...
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