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30 Prompts for When You "Can't Write Poetry"

Throughout high school, I filled up several journals, read poetry books and performed in Poetry Out Loud. Poetry was my life until it wasn’t

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For the Lost Writer

You yourself have decided that your story is worth telling, and so you yourself have decided that your story is worth reading.

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Show, Don’t Tell

Body language, expressions, tone of voice– these little details contribute to the makeup of personality and emotion.

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On Beginnings: How to Write an Opening Scene

Table of Contents To Engage: Laying Down the Framework To Introduce: Characters and Conflict To Illustrate: Specificity and Credibility...

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Dialogue 101

When I first got started as a writer, I found myself asking that question an awful lot. Maybe more than I should have, yet I would always...

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The LYF Writer’s Corner : Writer’s Block

I know, we’ve all been there, staring at a blank page, trying to figure out what comes next. There really isn’t a good way to say it, so...

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