Writing Prompt: Send Your Characters Back to School

Writing Prompt: Send Your Characters Back to School

It’s back to school season, and students everywhere are returning to classrooms after weeks away. But the return to school each autumn isn’t just a rite of passage. It’s a major change.

The best stories, inspired by strong prompts, center around change. That’s why you should use the return to school as the Inciting Incident for your new story.

10 Writing Tips from Ursula Le Guin

10 Writing Tips from Ursula Le Guin

Le Guin was a “genre” writer who constantly pushed the boundaries of what we think of as genre. Besides sci-fi and fantasy, she wrote poetry, creative nonfiction, and literary fiction.

I honestly believe she will go down in history as one of the greatest writers, literary or otherwise, of the 20th century.

How to Waste Time: 5 Ways To Do It Well

How to Waste Time: 5 Ways To Do It Well

If you’ve ever found yourself wasting time or just overwhelmed with time management in general, today’s guest writer has an interesting perspective on how to waste time as a writer—and still invest in your personal growth and quality time with those people and things you want most.Â