Social media is a fantastic way to share your writing, what you’ve learned about the process and the craft, and help you connect with readers. But getting started and growing your online presence can definitely be challenging, so here are thirty social media post ideas for writers to help get you posting today!
What images come to mind when you think of the first day of spring? Tulips unfurling? Easter egg hunts? Baseball season? Spring cleaning?Â
Whatever spring activities grace your calendar this month, I hope you’ll take some time to keep your writing habits going. In only 15 minutes a day, you can capture your creative writing ideas, practice new skills, or make progress on that book you’ve been dreaming of writing. Here are 40 new spring writing prompts to get you started!
With so many wonderful and painful parodies of bad writing around female characters, it’s easy to find what you shouldn’t do. Don’t describe women by their sexualised body parts; don’t depict women relaxing in anything seductive, rather than something fleece-lined and elastic-waisted; don’t let your women characters fall into any of the tropes skewered so deliciously by Gillian Flynn in Gone Girl’s Cool Girl speech. It’s striking that this deep into the 21st century, we should still have to remind writers of this, but reading and watching new books, TV shows and films demonstrate sadly that we have to. So here’s the news: women have interior lives.
As I work my way through round five of edits on my first fiction manuscript, I keep asking myself … am I there yet?
And I never quite seem to be. There’s always one more round of edits to address.
Dialogue is an essential component for most stories, whether it’s for a narrative essay, memoir, or fiction. Even if you’re writing nonfiction, you’ll likely use stories to illustrate your point, and those stories will include dialogue. Today we have some dialogue writing prompts to help you write better dialogue while you develop some story ideas. Â
What makes a book…a book? We imagine words that are read or listened to, perused on screen or on a shelf, and–most importantly–a completed work that never changes after release. But multimedia storytelling is helping authors reach new audiences in innovative ways, right where they already are: online.
And here’s the exciting part: any writer can explore this frontier.Â
