SHAULA EVANS

Inspiration & Support for Writers

a moth on a pair of dark metal scissors, leaning on a wooden spool of twine, next to an orange flower — 1. Take one of your poems or microflash, or even a paragraph from something you’re working on. 2. Chop it up into single words. 3. […]

Writing Game: Running With Scissors

This entry was posted in April Poetry Month Prompts & Writing Games on April 25, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on April 25, 2015)

Inuksuk — We hit our 1000th comment this week–appropriately enough in the weekly check in. I wanted to share the news with you because one of the […]

Milestone: 1000 Comments!

This entry was posted in Site News & Updates on April 22, 2015 by Shaula Evans

green apple intercut with orange slices — Husband and wife science fiction writers Kate Wilhelm and Damon Knight invented logogentics as “the new science of selling stories without actually writing”. Logogentics Get […]

Writing Prompt: Logogenetics

This entry was posted in April Poetry Month Prompts & Writing Games on April 21, 2015 by Shaula Evans

two daisies, a red notebook and a red pencil sitting on an open print book — In honour of Poetry Month, I want to know who your inner poet is. But let’s raise the stakes and make this a little more […]

Who Is Your Inner Poet?

This entry was posted in April Poetry Month Polls & Surveys and tagged inspiration poetry quiz role models on April 20, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on April 19, 2015)

“Whenever someone says “A woman would never do that” — take a note and let your lead do it. Great story will follow.” – Christian […]

Break Expectations

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games and tagged Christian Torpe Rita writing prompt on April 17, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on April 17, 2015)

male Mandarin duck — “The answer to the question What now is never what you think it’s going to be, and that is the thing that every writer has […]

Anne Patchett on Being Open

This entry was posted in Creativity Writing and tagged Ann Patchett psychology of writing writing strategy on April 16, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on April 15, 2015)

Artichoke in bloom exhibiting Fibonacci sequence — In mathematics, Fibonacci Numbers or Fibonacci Sequences are numbers that follow a particular sequence . What’s more interesting for our purposes is that they also […]

Fibonacci Sequence Poetry

This entry was posted in April Poetry Month Prompts & Writing Games on April 15, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on April 15, 2015)

Portrait of Sappho — You have probably heard of Sappho and Sapphic poetry. Let’s look at the “sapphic stanza”. The Sapphic Stanza is four lines long. The first three […]

Sapphic Stanzas

This entry was posted in April Poetry Month Prompts & Writing Games and tagged poetry verse form writing prompt on April 14, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on April 13, 2015)

white cat with one blue eye and one green eye — Defining Eye Rhymes “Eye Rhymes” are words that look similar but sound different: in other words, the “rhyme” happens for your eyes, not your ears. […]

Eye Rhymes

This entry was posted in April Poetry Month Prompts & Writing Games Writing and tagged eye rhymes poetry warm ups writing exercises writing prompts on April 13, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on April 14, 2015)

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