What was you favorite bedtime story? What about it was appealing to you? Could you use it as an example and write a story that might appeal to a child you might know today? Now if you do not have any children in your life-borrow one from a family member or neighbor. Not literally, but [...]
This time of the year creative writing ideas are everywhere. From cooking highs and lows to shopping adventures to visits with friends and family to touching stories you either remember or can see happening in the world around you. No limits here to things to write about so get those pencils sharpened-do finger exercises so [...]
What is Thanksgiving… Thanksgiving means many different things to many different people. For some it is a time to reach out to ones that don’t have or aren’t able to visit with their family. For others, it is a time of service, giving time at a homeless shelter or helping an elderly neighbor. I think [...]
Let’s take a specific example. If you want to write about a yacht, visualize a yacht, there are numerous mental images you can see in your mind: * If you normally see surface details, notice all the visual and sensory details: the colors, the shine, the feel. * If you normally see things in relation [...]
Topics to write about are everywhere. All you have to do is look around and decide. If that seems too much for you then look for topics in an area that you enjoy to narrow down the choices. Opinions are your specific take on a topic so add how you feel to conversations in writing [...]
The air is cooler the light is golden school has started time for Fall wonderful memories waiting to be created and remembered Time to get your writing instruments ready to go and start recording all of the happenings around you. There are so many things going on that it would be very difficult not to [...]
Summer is busy with all kinds of activities. A good source for writing about the activity or your enjoyment of the activity. If you are active in a sport, you could write about the history of the sport, how it has changed over the years, why you enjoy it, about the other fans of the [...]
Just a few days ago the USA celebrated the fourth of July which is their independence day celebration. Oh, the picnics, concerts and fireworks that were on the schedule. Lots of good material to write about: from family traditions to favorite outings to favorite foods. I remember hearing that the hot dog eating champion won [...]
As you have had your car serviced you may have had the person at the service desk come to you and tell you that your car needed ____________repairs and your cost to have this done would be___________. Sometimes they tell you that the repair needs to be done immediately or_______. Write a short story about [...]
In a conversation with someone I just met, we were talking about all of the changes that had taken place in the world around us over the past few years and how we needed to update and adjust so the information we were using was current. It would be fun to take a topic and [...]