If you’ve been looking for some research and writing tools, but haven’t wanted to spend tons of money to try each out to see what would work for you, then you might want to check out WritersGiveaway
Perfect for professional authors, new writers, screenplay writers and short story writers, this site is giving away writing goodies, [...]

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My heart goes out to all the people in SoCal who don’t know if they will have a home to go back to in the next few days due to all the large California fires burning in so many places.
Having lived through the huge 2003 Cedar fire (and being one of the lucky ones who [...]

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Not everyone is a dyed-in-the-wool book collector or quite as rabid a reader as I or my mother (a fact I don’t truly comprehend, but acknowledge as a remote possibility. =) However, most people I know enjoy a great read and would love to be able to have a chance to read [...]

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If you’re still stuck for an idea of something to write about after the first 9, then try the next Fiction Writing Exercises – Ideas for Writing Fiction #10:
10. Mining Your Past.
Consider using your past as a source of story ideas. To help prime the pump, get out your old school reports and school magazines. [...]

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Whenever I find an author I like, I try to read all his or her works, but some have sooo many pseudonyms, it can very hard to find everything that person has written, especially when they cover many different genres. It can also make selling or collecting books a bit tricky as sometimes the [...]

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