Every year, we make resolutions about what we plan to do in the next 12 months … We’re going to exercise more. We’re going to write more. We’re going to clean up our diets. We’re going to save money. Aside from giving up a few specific vices — smoking, reality TV, negative thoughts — most…
Author: Adam Hughes
The Deadline is Your Lifeline – Quick Writing Tip
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Sometimes a simple idea is all you need to get you moving forward again, and that’s the idea behind this series of Quick Writing Tips culled from around the net: to get your writing back on track. You know that great aunt of yours who loves to receive letters from…
12 Pieces of Writing Advice You Should Ignore in the New Year
If there’s one constant across all types of writers at every point in our careers, it’s that we’re always looking for ways to improve. Whether you want to write your novel faster, pull more traffic to your blog posts, or leave deeper psychological scars for readers of your short stories, you want to get better….
The Writer’s Toolbox: Grammarly for Chrome
By default, Chrome lets you know when it thinks you’ve made a spelling mistake by marking the offending word with a squiggly red underline. And you can use Grammarly to check for basic grammatical errors in addition to spelling gaffes. A free account will show you “critical” issues and alert you to the presence of…
15 Simple Writing Resolutions You Can Keep EVERY DAY in the New Year
Read More Fiction Other than, you know, writing your butt off, the best way to improve your prose is to read … a lot. Many writers fall into the trap of thinking they’re too busy with their own writing to do much reading, but that is a mistake. You will never reach your potential as…
31 Horrifying Writing Prompts to Help You Scare the Bejesus Out of Yourself This Halloween
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] You wake up on Halloween morning to a nasty surprise—an early snow has dumped 2 inches of the white stuff. Even nastier? There is a set of footprints leading up your driveway and into your house. You live alone. Your wife wakes you up in the middle of the night…
15 Ways to Use Your Day Job to Make You a Better Writer
The typical writer’s dream is to quit his day job and write from his home office for a few hours every day while selling enough books to support his family. No more stress, no more commute, no more worries beyond hammering out the next story. Just pure art and plenty of time for the important things…
