Here is the next lesson of Fiction Writing Exercises – Ideas for Writing Fiction #5 5. Proverbs Write a story based on a proverb or a quotation, e.g.: A fool and his money are soon parted. The early bird gets the worm. Waste not, want not. Rome was not built in a day. Necessity is [...]

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I’m always on the lookout for ways to earn a little extra book buying money, so have checked into finding legitimate paid online surveys – cash paid surveys, not ones offering some form of points or that do sweepstakes/prize giveaways (that no one I know ever seems to win including me.) Another important factor for [...]

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Here is the next lesson of Fiction Writing Exercises – Ideas for Writing Fiction #4 4. Hold the Front Page! Take a newspaper – local papers and tabloids are often best – and choose a story from it which intrigues you. Imagine the events which led up to the incident described and/or what happened next. [...]

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The beloved and bestselling author of WHEEL OF TIME, Robert Jordan, born James Oliver Rigney, Jr, passed away on Sept 16th at age 58 from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy, a rare blood disease that can cause the walls of the heart to thicken. In the early 1980s, Rigney wrote a trilogy of books with a [...]

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Here is the next installment of the fiction writing exercises – ideas for writing fiction #3. 3. The Untidy Professor Think of a character with a particularly strong character trait, e.g. absent-minded, lazy, domineering. Place your character in circumstances which conflict with this trait. Immediately you have two of the essential ingredients for fiction: characters [...]

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