Putting pen to paper can be a beast and when you finally do you may find that it is a wonderful stretch of your creative muscles and imagination. Or you may find that it was pure agony. Either way when you put down your pen, you'll have a first draft! That's the easy part. Now you [...]
Here are some upcoming Short Story Submission Opportunities Writers Weekly: 24-Hour Short Story Contest $5 Submission Fee per story. You will receive your prompt via email on Saturday, September 9th at noon (central time) and must write, revise and submit your completed story by noon (central time) on Sunday, September 10th. You must register before the [...]
In June 2015 I joined five of my fellow writers at Write It Up! We met at Fuddruckers that week and we passed around post-its to create our original prompts for the evening. When we finished and I unfolded my post-it I found these words. ferris wheel Grandpa slide whistle out of milk. I put my head [...]
