Score your own goals in writing

Climbing a mountain begins with a single step.
In fact, achieving anything requires some action on your part.
The more you attempt, the more you will achieve; but especially in writing.
For to be a writer, is to write.
If a tree in a deep forest does not fall if nobody hears the sound; then writing is not complete until it appears on the page and is read by a reader. read more

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You have sinned in the past.

Open a journal for the wronged one to read when you are gone.
You will confess to all that happened.
You will try to explain why it happened.
Then you will try to justify your actions.

Write as in short journal entries.
Be fulsome and precise.

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As I was and am

Write about how life was like for you two centuries ago.

It is not your grandparent's story.

You must tell it as if you are living it.

Not everyone participates in the turning of history.
Place yourself in context then as you are now.

What was life like for you?

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No advance for writers

A digital-only subsidiary of Harlequin Enterprises Ltd intends to publish with no advance payable to the authors.
Instead, authors will receive higher royalty rates, according to the new imprint Carina Press.
On offer will be 30 per cent of the original cover price on direct sales, 15 per cent on third party distribution.
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No rest for a writer

Write about a disruption to your most relaxing day.

You have a day off, perhaps.

It could be that you have planned this day for a long time.
You have been busy and this is your day.
But something happens.
Write about it, and what happens next.

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Is it love?

Create a lover for yourself.

Is it someone who showers you with attention and gifts?

Or, someone who will always be there for you, say they. Sadly, you do not love in return.

Is it you?

Is it them?

Or circumstance?
Write why.
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Dear Lover

You receive a private twitter message in error begging you to continue an affair.
What do you do?
Write back and say it isn't you?
Offer advice?
Offer commiseration?
Pretend you are the proper recipient and manipulate the sender?

Try to get more contact details to exploit the situation?

Ignore it?
Write what happens next.
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Cold Case

Write about two people affected by the opening of an old crime case.

One approves of the case being re-investigated.

The other person does not want the past to be re-visited.
What was the case?

Why are people divided on the issue?

How long ago was it and are all the people then involved still around?

Who stands to benefit from a new investigation?

Who might lose?
Your story; you write.

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Britain will appoint story laureate in new year

Britain will appoint its first laureate for storytelling in London in January as part of National Storytelling Week.

Mr Taffy Thomas, who is to be the first story laureate, has a repertoire of 300 stories gathered over the past 30 years.

Thomas (60) is a literature and drama teacher in another life.
He was awarded an MBE for services to storytelling and charity in 2001.
During his two-year term the storyteller will wander the land telling stories to all that will listen.
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So you want to be remembered

Every person on the planet is important. But you knew that already. As a species we live and prosper by the accumulated knowledge of our times and of those that have gone before.

We know what happened to earlier people for they wrote it down, or someone else did, on their behalf, or over their objections.

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