Well, today we have something I haven’t done in a while. A guest post! And from quite an awesome human being, too. Elijah is an awesome kid and a great writer and I have had the honor of mentoring him on OYAN. And today, we’re trading guest posts, with our top 5 writing tips! Behold,… Read More Top 5 Writing Tips from My Protege & Me
Okay well the celebration is continuing a little longer here because I have more to share. SO. An OYAN buddy of mine is starting up an audiobook business/podcast. And he generously offered to include Blank Mastermind in his newest episode! So here we have chapter one of the official publish-version Blank Mastermind draft, in audiobook… Read More Some Extra Blank Mastermind Things
Alrighty folks, we’ve got something quite fun for an auspicious day. My good friend, C.B. Cook, is coming out with her second book, Lightporter! And since I’m able to do a bit more than simply read and toast to its success, I am helping out on the blog tour of the book leading up to… Read More Lightporter Blog Tour! {Blaze Character Interview + Book Review}
Hey, guys! Last night, SprinkleSquink and I did a little writing exercise/picture prompt thing. It was really fun and we liked how they turned out, so we thought we’d share! Here was the picture prompt: And here is my writing bit (we had a 250 word limit): Wormhole My wormhole experiment took a little bit… Read More The Wormhole & Extraterrestrial Hairball
Writefury’s submission for proverbs31teen’s May Character Creation Contest: Anyone remember Rob McKinley from The Day Santa Wore Carhartts? Well, he’s back. I’m writing from his perspective this time, and building on the character of this little girl: This is only the first half, because I ran out of time. So, I’ll hopefully be posting… Read More Character Creation Contest Entries
Hey, Everyone! This is a really sweet christian short story from my author friend, Violet. I really liked it and hope you will too! Thanks, Violet! Royalty She walked alone. Alone down the same old beaten path that she had been walking for so long. She knew every stone and stumbling block on… Read More Royalty
Challenge 9: Write an Acrostic Poem About Your Pet Bullwinkle and Sassafras are our family’s Irish Wolfhounds. Neither of us really own either of them, but we split it up according to who we train. Writefury’s Black as night Ungainly, in a good way Large for his age Lustrous black fur Willing to obey Incredibly… Read More Writing Challenge, Day 9
Challenge 8: Rewrite the 1st verse of “Let it Go” from Frozen You won’t get this post unless you see this: Writefury’s The story behind the song: In an unfortunate accident everyone in the kingdom finds out Elsa fridge is full of moldy food. Embarrassed, Elsa takes her fridge and runs away to hide on… Read More Writing Challenge, Day 8
Challenge 7: Write a Haiku About a Slug Writefury’s Shimmering slime trail The brown slug oozes along You like slugs? You’re nuts. Sprinkle Squink’s Squishy and slimy A big brown blob. Disgusting! Slugs: Just weird and gross! Did we accurately describe the grossness? Let us know in the comments! ~writefury and sprinkle squink
Challenge 5: Write a Personality Quiz Writefury’s Which one of my book characters are you? Now, tally your answers and see who you were! Mostly a’s You’re most like Jazz from “Odd Team Out“. You like music, being with people and sometimes doing weird things to… Read More Writing Challenge, Day 5
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