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Traveling Season – The Ponderers

One to Watch!

The Ponderers is a brand new site featuring our own Teri Dawn Smith, a recent finalist in the ACFW Genesis competition.

These ladies are all excellent writers with an abundance of exciting ideas. You may want to bookmark this one!

Personal Motivation

Writing Prompt #6

Ready to spice things up? Last time we let one picture paint a thousand words. This time, let’s aim for a short story that includes some reference to the subjects pictured below.

To me, these images suggest historical fiction or historical romance, but you don’t have to limit yourself to those. What other genres might you be able to work with?

You’re welcome to share your ideas in the comment section.

Personal Motivation, Plotting

Traveling Season – Randy Ingermanson

Randy Ingermanson says:

I’m a physicist, an author, and probably dangerously disturbed. I write about “The intersection of Science Avenue and Faith Boulevard” because that’s the corner where I live. This neighborhood doesn’t have many lights, so you see a lot of accidents around here. Be careful of the flying glass! My job in life is to disturb your universe. I hope that’s not a problem. An undisturbed universe is a dull universe.

Sounds like an interesting guy, right? You have yet to scratch the surface! :) Read more about him at http://www.ingermanson.com/ and be SURE to check out his blog at the Advanced Fiction Writing blog (http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/). While you’re there, give his Snowflake plotting method a look. Many writers find this a wonderfully helpful tool for plotting a story.

Personal Motivation

Writing Prompt #5

They say a picture’s worth a thousand words, so just a picture this time. 

Personal Motivation

Traveling Season – Gail Martin’s Tips for Writers

Some multi-published authors generously share advice with younger writers. Each has their different specialty and genre. Sampling from several writers’ blogs this summer should help you find one or two you can really relate to.

Gail Martin writes romance and romantic suspense for Christian readers. Even if that’s not what you write, you could learn a lot this week browsing through Gail’s blog at http://gailmartin.com/writers.