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  • Writing

    52 writing prompts in 2017: Week 2

    January 11, 2017 / No Comments

    I need writing prompts. I am planning to write 52 short stories this year. A short story per week. Some will be terrible. A few won’t be. But the more I write, the better I will be at crafting a short story. There’s 52 weeks worth of writing prompts for those of you who also want to write short or long pieces and are struggling. Use them as themes/first lines/plot points/endings. It is up to you. Leave a comment if you end up using any of these and if you are feeling up to it, please share so we can read your awesome work too. And if you have a…

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  • Freelancing,  Writing

    Freelance writing plans for 2017

    January 6, 2017 / No Comments

      If you have read the post on how my freelance writing went this past year, you would see that I got quite a bit lucky but also found a lot of room for improvement. The thing is, you can’t tell me that I need to improve on something because then I go get pen and paper and start planning to become better at whatever said sucky thing is. And I kind of go overboard. I would like to share this process with you so you can see how damn stupid my brain is at times and smart at other times. As my sister says “We don’t know how someone…

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