What Do You Do When You Hate ALL Your Ideas?

What Do You Do When You Hate ALL Your Ideas?

Yesterday, I quit the story I was working on. I tried to start something new but then hated the new idea and quit it, too.

I go through these periods every once in a while when I hate all my writing ideas. Even writing this post was hard. Every sentence I wrote, I hated. Has this ever happened to you? How do you handle it?

What do you do when you hate your writing?

Have You Found Your Writing Voice?

Have You Found Your Writing Voice?

I asked Ted Dekker how long it takes for an author to find their voice.

“It takes four to five novels,” he said. So if the average novel is about 80,000 words, then you have to write 320,000 to 400,000 words before you find your voice.

Enter the Covering the Classics Contest

Enter the Covering the Classics Contest

This month, we’re partnering with Story Cartel to host the Covering the Classics Contest (wow, that’s a lot of C’s), a contest to re-imagine the covers of ten classic books. This is part of Story Cartel’s new book club, an online community to read and discuss the classic books of yesteryear.

By the way, if you want to brush up on the classics, plus get ten classic books completely free, you should check out the Story Cartel Book Club.

If you could re-imagine the covers of classic books, what would they look like? This is your chance to put your personal mark on some of the world’s most revered books. Sound interesting? Read on for the rules…

Money [writing prompt]

PRACTICE
Write a story or scene involving money.

Write for fifteen minutes. When your time is up, post your practice in the comments section, and if you post, please be sure to leave feedback for a few fellow practitioners.

Happy writing!