Inspiration Monday: a world of impossibilities

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Happy new year! I’m not making any resolutions – I never feel ambitious enough after the craziness of the holidays. January is like recuperation. Maybe I’ll make a resolution in February, haha. How about y’all?

How about resolving to read all the InMon pieces, every week! I promise it’ll be rewarding! You can start now!

Chris

Oscar

Elmo

Mike

MissM

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The Rules

There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.

OR

No really; I need rules!

Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

a world of impossibilities
keeps the doctor away
who is in the mirror
inhumankind
fighting shadows

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post (here’s a video on how to do it); I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at bekindrewrite (at) yahoo (dot) com. (I do reserve the right to NOT link to a piece as stated in my Link Discretion Policy.)

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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* MC = Mature Content.

Opinions expressed in other writers’ InMon pieces are not necessarily my own.

Archives for Christmas: How to write a query letter

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I hope you all had a very merry Christmas! I did. And I’m still on vacation, so I’ve been getting some real writing done, which warms the very cockles of my heart.

This is the last week of archival posts – next Friday I’ll actually be posting something new! But although I’ve been working on plotting out posts for the entire year, I’m still not sure what I’ll be writing about. Wish me luck!

Today’s post was originally published on April 9, 2011. It’s the first of three parts, with the second part linked at bottom. Enjoy, and let me know if you have questions.

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A hook, a.k.a. elevator pitch or logline, is 2-3 sentences explaining what your book is about. It’s the heart of a query letter, the thing that gets the agent to request pages. It is also the second hardest thing you will write. Read the rest >>

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Inspiration Monday: better early than never

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Merry Christmas! InMon’s coming early today – it’s Christmas Eve, after all, I’ve still got another batch of fudge and a cheese ball to make, plus parties and deliveries and relatives and the like to prepare for. But, um. It’s six o’clock somewhere?

Oh yeah – I finally made gingerbread men yesterday.

That's a lemon glaze with green food coloring drizzled on top. I didn't feel like going the whole nine yards decorating them.

That’s a lemon glaze with green food coloring drizzled on top. I didn’t feel like going the whole nine yards decorating them.

If there are any other InMon pieces I missed (like ones you post in the next few hours), I’ll try to get to them later today, but it might not be for a few days. Sorry! Have a great Christmas –

Read these:

LoveTheBadGuy and another

LadyWhispers

Parul

Spider42

Oscar

Chris and another and another

Elmo

Craig

MissM

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The Rules

There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.

OR

No really; I need rules!

Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

better early than never
true myth
odd twinkle
replacement memories
unexpected knock

 

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post (here’s a video on how to do it); I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at bekindrewrite (at) yahoo (dot) com. (I do reserve the right to NOT link to a piece as stated in my Link Discretion Policy.)

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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* MC = Mature Content.

Opinions expressed in other writers’ InMon pieces are not necessarily my own.

Archives for Christmas: How to edit your novel

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We can elbow each other and wink. I guess the world didn’t end after all. Until we remember it did, for some.

Hold your families close this Christmas, folks. Remember how lucky you are.

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This post is a “re-run” to give me time to take in the holidays (still haven’t made those gingerbread men – I’ll let you know). It was originally published January 6, 2012.

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You’re drowning in words. There are a million things wrong with this book. And you’re so busy trying to figure out why page thirty-five sounds so blooming doofy that it’s months before you notice the whole first half of the book drags and your characters are totally flat. Keep reading >>