I’ve been a long time lurker on the Write Anything website. They have a lot of good articles on writing and every once and a while they post these fun little exercises.
I’ve normally just done them off-line, but I thought I would share this one.
The point of this exercise was to write a 10 line [...]

So perhaps I wasn’t as ready to start a new novel as I thought, but I needed to do something while I wait to see what happens to my novel “Ice Debt” (see this post – update 7).
But I was stuck. I love building worlds but it wasn’t coming to me this time.
I tried the [...]

(Something from the news to get your creative wheels turning…)
Man Died Naturally Same Day Lover Was Killed
From: Associated Press
CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. (June 18, 2009) – Police have determined that a southwestern Pennsylvania man died of natural causes the same day his longtime girlfriend was found beaten to death in a separate residence in the same town.
Police [...]

Here’s another strange story for you, according to http://www.cbcnews.com.
“The box of crackers Debra Rogoff bought from the grocery store had some crackerjack in it _ an envelope stuffed with $10,000.
Yet the Irvine woman was more curious than ecstatic about her daughter’s find. After all, who would leave money in such a place?
“We just thought, ‘This [...]

I saw the most interesting article today.
It was a very short article that said, last night a woman fell three stories from her apartment balcony and survived with minor injuries. The interesting part? She was naked.
There was a man waiting for the bus outside the apartment she lives in and was shocked to see a [...]



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      Chinese Whisperings are 10 stories about 10 different people. The twist in this collection is that each new story takes a minor character from the story before and makes him or her into the main character. The whole thing works extremely well. It is not a novel in chapters, and therefore slightly disconcerting when you meet the person or persons from the story before in a completely different setting. But it works wonderfully.”
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