Are You the Next Winner? I love nothing more than a good competition. Unlike some, I think competition is a great motivator to push people to their limits and see what potential they truly hold. This is the same when it comes to writing competitions. Writing competitions are a great way to push yourself to the next level especially when it comes to writing outside your normal genre or with a prompt you might have otherwise never used. I find some of my best ideas have come fr

Taking An Interesting First Sentence to Create A Scene We are back at it! As you may know last year, I published my second prompt book, 100 First Sentences: Creative Prompts That Do The Hard Part For You. Inside includes 100 first sentences to help write your next story. As we all know the first sentence is what grabs the readers attention and makes them keep reading the story. While creating my new prompt book I thought some of the sentences would be fun to use in some of my

Crafting a Sentence to Keep Readers Engaged When reading writing advice, one common theme you see is the importance of crafting the very first sentence. How one should come up with an unique take to get readers attention instantly. Now, do I think writing a great opening to a story is important? Yes. Does that mean it has to include the first sentence? No. Not all stories need that ‘wow’ opener. Especially when the plot of the story is most important. It doesn’t need to conta