by Dawn Robinson Walsh | May 20, 2020 | Hooks, Inspiration, Writing, Writing prompts
Sometimes we start work on a story or a narrative and get stuck along the way. What to do if the old writer’s block steps in? Well, I have always been a lover of options. So, if you come to a full stop in your story, ask those crucial two words: what if? What if...
by Dawn Robinson Walsh | Apr 10, 2020 | Inspiration, Motivation, Writing
We are all hearing how the Bard wrote King Lear during a time of pestilence. What a dude! How Dodie Smith wrote I Capture the Castle during wartime, bombs dropping around her. J.K.Rowling, single-mum and author extraordinaire wrote in cafes. Well, blow me, I prefer...
by Dawn Robinson Walsh | Apr 1, 2020 | Inspiration, Writing, Writing prompts
An acrostic is an age-old form of visual patterning. It is rather like those Wordsearch puzzles as some people place them in a grid, but the technique can work within creative writing. Basically, you use the letters of a word to create descriptions, or a line of...
by Dawn Robinson Walsh | Mar 30, 2020 | Blogging, Inspiration, Writing
Why be a writer? Writing is not really something you decide to do one day in order to earn some extra money. It comes from a deeply internal, guttural desire to get words down and your message out. Do you feel like this? Writing is natural. Writing is good for us. We...
by Dawn Robinson Walsh | Mar 30, 2020 | Inspiration, Motivation, Writing, Writing prompts
What should I write – fiction or non-fiction? Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay Everyone says fiction, of course, because those are the famous authors we know about, the J.K.Rowlings and the Stephen Kings of this world. They are the superstars of authoring....
