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Sunny With a High of 75: A Short Story
I wrote a short story based on an Instagram comment that gave me the following prompts: “Gunsteel gray,” “the beginning, I’ve heard, is a good place to begin,” “the fritters were tastier than the donuts,” and “sunny with a high of 75.”
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6 Tips for Beginner Writers
In this post, I’m going to share a few tips that will help you get started as a writer. Even if you aren’t a beginner, make sure to keep reading because these tips can be useful to anyone.
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The Secret to Story Conflict
Do you struggle to provide enough conflict in your stories? Do your scenes sometimes seem a little boring? In this post, I’m going to share a simple tip to help make your scenes more interesting.
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What Are Plantsers?
In today’s post, we’ll be talking about plantsers. These are hybrids of the plotters and pantsers, and they’re on a spectrum rather than extremes like the other two. Plantsers usually plot out some things but dive into writing sooner than plotters do. However, they still stick to some kind of outline, differentiating them from pantsers.
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Bad Days: A Poem
We’ve all had bad days… days when we think the whole world is against us. But as Christians, God can show us how we should really view bad days—and how we can help to make other people’s days better.
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What Are Pantsers?
Today, we’re talking about pantsers. A pantser is someone who writes “by the seat of their pants.” In other words, they just start writing and go where the story takes them. Often, pantsers will have a few scenes or story elements in their head, and they connect those dots together as they write.
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What Are Plotters?
In case you didn’t read my previous post in the series (or you need a refresher), let’s define today’s post subject. A plotter is someone who outlines—or plots—their story from start to finish before they begin to write it. These are the type of writers who hit all of the plot points and story beats,…
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The Cross: A Poem
What does the cross mean to us? So often, it seems that we forget how amazing it really is. I wrote this poem to capture some of that wonder we should feel when we think about the cross.
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Intro to Plotters, Pantsers, and Plantsers
Have you ever looked at another writer’s process and wondered if you’re doing it right? There is a lot of debate about plotters vs. pantsers… so who is actually correct? Should you meticulously outline everything, or dive head-first into writing? Or maybe you should find a balance between the two…
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Why do we Write?
Why do we write? This is a question all writers have probably asked themselves at some point in their lives. It might be asked out of curiosity, or as a desperate, give-me-a-reason-to-stay cry for answers.
