First of all, squiders, I want to let you know about this site called Fighter’s Block. Along with sites like Write or Die or Written Kitten, it adds in a little twist to offer some motivation for writing. In this
Where to Find Story Ideas: Research
Good afternoon, squiders. Today, in our search for inspiration, we’re going to talk about research. This is exactly what it sounds like–you need to know something (or know more about something) for a story, and so you research it. This
Where to Find Story Ideas: People
Good morning, squiders! It’s Wednesday, so I suppose we should get to work for the week. Today, continuing on with our inspiration theme, we’re going to talk about an endless font of ideas: other people. There’s a reason ‘people watching’
Where to Find Story Ideas: Pictures
Continuing on with our story idea theme, Squiders, today we’ll be discussing pictures. There is a reason that they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Pictures can and often are a great way to find story ideas at
Where to Find Ideas: Story Prompts
Today, Squiders, we’re going to jump into places to look for inspiration, either for specific purposes, to build up your story idea file(s), or just to troll around and see if anything catches your fancy. And what better place to
Keeping Track of Story Ideas
Good morning, Squiders! Today we’re jumping back into our nonfiction series on story idea generation. I was going to go over where to go looking for ideas, but it occurred to me that perhaps it would be best to talk
Useful Link Round-up
Okay, Squiders, I want to be able to do the idea generation posts in a row, so for today, I’m going to share various links that I’ve been hoarding that other people might find interesting. Monday I’ll have a review/promo
Why Go Looking for Writing Ideas?
First of all, squiders, I apologize for disappearing off the grid. Normally when I go out of town I pre-write and schedule the posts, but we took a spontaneous trip last week and I didn’t have time to get things
Remembering Theme When Lost
Good afternoon, Squiders! We’ll start our next nonfic topic about coming up with ideas and expanding them into something workable next week. I still need to finish outlining the topic before we get started. But, while we’re talking about that,
PPWC Session Wrap-up, Final
Here’s the last PPWC wrap-up post, Squiders, so if you haven’t been digging them, you can rest assured that we will definitely talk about something else next week. Maybe we should a readalong. Haven’t done one of those in a
