I know this was not the original, but I first saw this tag on Madame Writer’s blog (check it out here), and I really enjoyed reading it! I’m excited to do it as this is my first book tag! As a reminder, I am not yet an adult, meaning most of my books will be …
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Sample Stories(?): Email Prompt
Good prompts are not easy to find. I know. In all my days of search, I have only found one complete book of good writing prompts. Yep. Only one. Last night, however, I was too lazy to fetch that book and instead came up with my own writing prompts. When I finished my second writing …
5 (More) Quotes About Writing… That Will Make You Laugh
It’s been a while since I made the last ‘Quote’ post, and I want to say a lot has changed since then. Let’s see, that was… July 27, 2019! Wow! Okay, I was not expecting that! I’m just gonna jump right into the funniest quotes I could find… Learn more about Douglas Adams here: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Douglas-Adams …
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Sample Stories: The Story of the Five Golden Keys
Okay, I know in my last post I said “soon-to-be-Valentine’s Day,” but that is because I wrote that post before Valentine’s Day, but somehow… I didn’t publish it? And so a few days ago, I realized I did not publish it, so I did that. Only after did I notice that it said that. My …
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Unique Techniques: Character Charts
Have you ever gotten Writer’s Block because you didn’t know what a character would do in a certain situation? Or you want them to do a certain thing, but it seems “forced”? These are totally normal things, but how do we fix them? Well, one way to do this is by making a Character Chart. …
Lit Literature: Eva of the Farm
On top of the hill, I lean against the deer fence and write a poem in the sky. My fingertip traces each word on the sunlit blue– the sky will hold the words for me until I get the chance to write them down. After the last line, I sign my name– Eva of the …
Unique Techniques: Speed Dating Your Tasks
A couple days ago, I learned about something called “speed dating” your tasks. Right now, you might be tempted to find the nearest search engine (Google?) and look up what speed dating your tasks means. Let me save you some time and tell you what it is. Speed dating your tasks is a technique that …
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5 Quotes About Writing That Will Inspire You
If you write, you are bound to get stuck. And sometimes the only way to get out of the muck is to get inspiration, so here are 5 quotes to inspire you. ; ) Learn more about Richard Bach: https://www.famousauthors.org/richard-bach This quote reminds us that every great writer started off the same way you did …
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How I learned to write
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. It was a while ago when I discovered I wanted to be a writer. Someone who can paint a picture with words. I thought it would be easy. I thought my day would go like this: every morning, I would wander out of bed and …
Hi, It’s nice to meet you!
Hi! My name is Eva Jost. I want to be a writer when I grow up. I created this blog to inspire people to follow their dreams as I follow mine. Ok, that’s pretty cliché, so let me rephrase it. I started this blog to show everyone how amazing I am. Better. Now that we …
Am I write? 