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Advice from Papa: A Writing Prompt

BySheryl Monks June 25, 2014October 17, 2015

Some of Hemingway’s best writing advice is featured over at BrainPickings. Here’s one tidbit that comes with a prompt built in: Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when…

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A Writing Prompt for Father’s Day

BySheryl Monks June 15, 2014October 10, 2015

The protagonist of my novel is not actually the biological father of his eldest son. The boy doesn’t know this, however, and unaware of his true identity, he begins to develop a romantic interest in a young girl with whom he might be related. Trouble. Today as you are thinking of and celebrating your own…

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Seeing a Thing a Thousand Times: A Writing Prompt

BySheryl Monks April 20, 2014October 17, 2015

There’s a certain grain of stupidity a writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more you see the world in it; and it’s well to remember that the serious fiction writer…

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