Creative Writing Prompts: Shapeshifters, Real...

posted on: Jan 25, 2013 | author: Kathy Steffen

One fascinating possibility to add to your creative writing toolbox are creatures known as shapeshifters—real, imagined, and...

How to Use Visuals as a Creative Writing Prom...

posted on: Jan 16, 2013 | author: Kathy Steffen

Visuals have always inspired me and cause ideas to flow. I always think of it as cross-referencing my senses. If I need to describe a church, I see...

How is Your Muse Awesome?

posted on: Dec 17, 2012 | author: Mary Muse

By Mary Caelsto By now I’m just past the halfway point in the Awesome Writer’s Muse Giveaway I’m hosting. (There’s still time to sign up.)...

Creative Writing Prompts for the End of the W...

posted on: Dec 14, 2012 | author: Kathy Steffen

Nostradamus, the Bible, the Mayan calendar, no matter who you are or where you live, you have heard the end of the world prophesized. We’ve all...

Creative Writing Prompts: It’s in the D...

posted on: Nov 14, 2012 | author: Kathy Steffen

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. –Ernest...

Creative Writing Prompts: Start with a Settin...

posted on: Aug 24, 2012 | author: Kathy Steffen

The DaVinci Code begins with a murder in the Louvre. The story of Sarah’s Key had to take place in France. In the case of Water for Elephants,...