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Let’s take a moment to assess your creative journey in 2014. How did you grow as a creative person?

Creative Growth

This entry was posted in Creativity and tagged growth on December 29, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on December 29, 2014)

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This week’s writing prompt is about holidays. Winter is a time of many religious and secular celebrations–but wherever you are, and whatever you do or […]

Idea Factory Writing Prompt #2

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games and tagged holidays on December 26, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on December 26, 2014)

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Thank you to everyone who played our little holiday writing game and unlocked the win bonus by writing new lyrics for the 12 Days of […]

Traditional Counting Song

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games and tagged lyrics on December 25, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on December 25, 2014)


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It happened one Christmas Eve a long time ago in a place called Oakland on a newspaper called the Tribune with a city editor named […]

What makes this a good story?

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged analysis on December 25, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on December 25, 2014)

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Yes, even writers get vacations. You might think that statement is not true, especially as there’s a great deal of silly canonical writing advice flying […]

Even Writers Get Vacations

This entry was posted in Creativity on December 24, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 8, 2015)

View of the Empress Hotel from the Inner Harbour, Victoria, British Columbia; photo by Brandon Godfrey
The relationship between character and location in narrative fiction fascinates me. I find that exploring the connection between characters and their location yields incredible story […]

Connections between setting and character

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged character development location specificity on December 23, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on December 23, 2014)


三分咲き Cherry Blossoms by 吉田 遠志 Toshi Yoshida 1970
With many small strokes a large tree is felled. 小打も積もれば大木を倒す — Japanese Proverb

Persistence

This entry was posted in Quotes and tagged dilligence Japan perseverance on December 22, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on December 21, 2014)

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Welcome to the inaugural edition of our weekly Idea Factory writing prompt series!

Idea Factory Writing Prompt #1

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games and tagged writing prompt on December 19, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on December 19, 2014)

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7 Writing Tips from the Sundance Episodic Story Lab

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged character development Desiree Akhavan writing tips on December 18, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on December 19, 2014)


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