Enrichment Activities: 30 Days of Stay-at-Home Learning, Business, and Self-Care Activities for Writers
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Fiction writer?
Feeling like you should be getting some writing done but somehow not getting anywhere?
Want to write something but don’t have the brain to decide what?
Want to try something new?
First, let me recommend that you take it easy on yourself. Everyone has rough patches.
Second, have I got some ideas for you!
If you’re spinning your wheels and want someone to give you the equivalent of a small craft project for fiction writing, you’ve found the right place.
Here are 30 different story starts that delve deeper than the standard story prompt ideas, 30 different journal entry prompts to mine for content, 30 different fiction techniques to study and add to your toolbox, and lots, lots more.
Get yourself writing again and expand your horizons with 30 days of bite-sized ten-minute projects designed to help you change your mindset from perfectionist to productive!
DeAnna Knippling
DeAnna Knippling is a freelance writer, editor, and book designer living in Colorado. She started out as a farm girl in the middle of South Dakota, went to school in Vermillion, SD, then gravitated through Iowa to Colorado, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She now writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and mystery for adults under her own name; adventurous and weird fiction for middle-grade (8-12 year old) kids under the pseudonym De Kenyon; and various thriller and suspense fiction for her ghostwriting clients under various and non-disclosable names. Her latest book, Alice’s Adventures in Underland: The Queen of Stilled Hearts, combines two of her favorite topics–zombies and Lewis Carroll. Her short fiction has appeared in Black Static, Penumbra, Crossed Genres, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and more. Her website and blog are at www.WonderlandPress.com. You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter.
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Enrichment Activities
Introduction
Fiction writer?
Feeling like you should be getting some writing done but somehow not getting anywhere?
Want to write something but don’t have the brain to decide what?
Want to try something new?
First, let me recommend that you take it easy on yourself. Everyone has rough patches.
Second, have I got some ideas for you!
If you’re spinning your wheels and want someone to give you the equivalent of a small craft project for fiction writing, you’ve found the right place.
Here are 30 different story starts that delve deeper than the standard story prompt ideas, 30 different journal entry prompts to mine for content, 30 different fiction techniques to study and add to your toolbox, and lots, lots more.
As a ten-year ghostwriting freelancer, I have been disciplining myself to stay on track and focused for quite some time. I’ve learned some tricks on the business side, and I’m a positive fiend for studying new techniques.
Get yourself writing again and expand your horizons with 30 days of bite-sized ten-minute projects designed to help you change your mindset from perfectionist to productive!
The Setup
What you’re about to read is a series of tips and tricks that were written during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. I was trying to help keep a group of writer friends amused and sane (as sane as they ever were) during lockdown.
I had been on a conference call with several other writers who were suddenly trying to work from home, or who were on furlough, or who had been laid off, and most of them complained of having extra time on their hands and no motivation to write.
The motivation to write isn’t something you can find. You have to make it.
What I’ve found, over ten-plus years of ghostwriting, is that motivation comes from a constantly-shifting combination of deadlines, bills, threats, guilt trips, bribery, meditation, and rewards.
And, of course, dreams.
Finding a pure sense of motivation is