SHAULA EVANS

Inspiration & Support for Writers

Louise Erdrich — My friend the talented Israeli-Brazilian writer Avital Gad-Cykman introduced me to “Advice to Myself” by Louise Erdrich, and I thought it might speak to some […]

Louise Erdrich: Advice to Myself

This entry was posted in April Poetry Month Prompts & Writing Games Writing and tagged creative life creativity Louise Erdrich permission to write poem poetry specificity time management on April 11, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on April 12, 2015)

The Audience Game Think about a specific incident. It can be something from real life, it can be an incident in a story or poem […]

The Audience Game

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games on April 10, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on April 11, 2015)

Chihuahua puppy in a polka-dot cup — In 1990 François Caradec invented “poems for dogs.” The poets hides a dog’s name phonetically in each verse: the dog responds to the name but, […]

Poems for Dogs

This entry was posted in April Poetry Month Prompts & Writing Games on April 9, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on April 8, 2015)

Mille Dinesen as the title character in the Danish TV series 'Rita', sitting in a graffiti-covered bathroom stall, smoking — I want to recommend pilot the pilot episode of Rita because there’s so much to learn from the fantastic writing on this show. Rita is an […]

What I’m Watching: Rita

This entry was posted in What I'm Watching and tagged set-ups & pay-offs TV TV pilots on April 2, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on April 2, 2015)

Cherry Blossoms in Izunokuni City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan — April is Poetry Month! Join me and take the April Poetry Month Challenge. Everyone is welcome and it doesn’t matter whether you think of yourself […]

April Poetry Month Challenge

This entry was posted in April Poetry Month Polls & Surveys Site News & Updates and tagged poetry on April 1, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on May 3, 2015)

Pug — Let’s launch Poetry Month with one of my all-time favourite poems, a famous epigram by Alexander Pope: Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog […]

Poetry Prompt: Epigrams

This entry was posted in April Poetry Month Prompts & Writing Games and tagged Alexander Pope couplet epigram poetry satire on April 1, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on October 27, 2015)

Cole Swensen — Cole Swensen shares a great tip for getting unstuck using auto-translation. Whether you speak a second language or not, you can play with machine translators […]

Cole Swensen on Getting Unstuck

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games Writing and tagged Cole Swensen getting unstuck translation on March 23, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on March 23, 2015)

Steampunk heart with 'Idea Factory' Banner — This week’s Idea Factory writing prompt takes its inspiration from one of the great literary hoaxes of all time: the infamous 1969 novel Naked Came […]

Idea Factory Writing Prompt #11

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games and tagged hoax writing prompt on March 20, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on March 20, 2015)

Etching of an old sailor waving his wooden leg and a man with no arms drinking — To wave your wooden leg means to take your problem and put it up there on the screen, full-on, no apologies. We were watching Good […]

What’s Your Wooden Leg?

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged writing strategy on March 18, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on March 20, 2015)

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