Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Alice's Bucket List: Hello :)
Alice's Bucket List: Hello :): "Hello :) It's a bit funny me doing a blog because mum has always done these sort of things and I've never really being interested before. M..."
Alice's Bucket List: Oh dear!
Alice's Bucket List: Oh dear!: "Oh dear and I thought that I was just doing a little blog for a few friends! Thank you so much for all your lovely messages to me. I don't..."
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Creative Writing Ideas: Book Review
Creative Writing Ideas: The 4-Hour Workweek
The 4-Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferris is one of my favorite books. I read it this January and 3 days ago I found out that there was an unpdated version, which I now have and started reading.
Timothy Ferris is not only an intrepreneur, a blogger, a world traveler, but he's a lifestyle designer, which is what I aspire to be.
You can check out my full review here: The 4-Hour Workweek
Creative Writing Ideas: Setting
Author Keith Gray discusses Setting in his 5 part video series
Watch his video: Creative Writing Ideas: Setting
Creative Writing Ideas: Plot
Scottish Author discusses Plot in his 5 video series
Explore your creative writing ideas and take a leaf from Keith Gray's world: Creative Writing Ideas: Plot.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Creative Writing: Character!
Creative Writing Ideas Day 9 Prompt for the Daily Writing Challenge
Author Keith Gray discusses Character in his 2nd video of his 5 part creative writing lecture about story telling.
Check out the full post and the writing prompt for Day 9 of the Daily Writing Challenge at Creative Writing Ideas
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Creating Writing Ideas: Virtual Classes
Online creative writing classes with Scottish author
Hello! to spark the creative writing ideas, I'm going to post a 5 video creative writing class series, which focuses on story telling. The first video focuses on inspiration and ideas. I hope you find this inspiring. ;)
To get more inspiration, check out the Narrative Prompts featured at Creative Writing Ideas.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Creative Writing Ideas: Developing Your Character Further
Creative Writing Ideas: Day 5 of the Daily Writing Challenge
Holla! Some of you may be thinking that I misspelled, "Hola", the Spanish equivalent of the English, "Hello". But I did not, I wrote - Holla, as in the lyrics from one of Missy Elliot's songs, "Hollllllllaaaaa, ain't no stopin' me. Copy written, so don't copy me." You know you love my vernacular. ;)
Back to Creative Writing, the narrative prompt for Day 5 is up and running, it's running like crazy and preparing for a marathon, a writing marathon, a daily writing marathon - and you're going to join. :)
Yesterday we explored character creation in the simplest form: name, age, height, eye color, etc. Today we are exploring our character's external world, their family situation. Do they have any siblings, what is their relationship like with their father? Is the mother alive? If so, what is her job. Is your character married? What is your character's sex life like? Active? Frustrated? Non-existant? These are some of the questions we're going to explore.
You're going to have 10 minutes, that is right TEN minutes only to complete this writing exercise. The point is for you to write fluidly and thoughtlessly, so you can load yourself up with ammunition to defeat the dreaded Writer's Block when he comes knocking on your imagination.
Visit Creative Writing Ideas to get started and grooving with your character, character development that is. ;)
Creative Writing Ideas: Further Developing Your Character
You can watch the introduction video below. :) Good luck writing! Break a metaphorical leg!!!
Friday, January 21, 2011
Creative Writing Ideas: Alice, Part 1 of Short Story
Creative Writing Ideas: Part 1 of Alice
Creative Writing ideas are endless. The Daily Writing Challenge is almost hitting its 4th day, and it's hitting hard. I think it used a metal bat. Ouch!
Creative Writing Ideas is hosting the Daily Writing Challenge. If you want to catch up on the last 3 days, read the 1st prompt, which describes turning Valentines and making people happy into a writing exercise. You can read a trippy narrative prompt relating to Alice In Wonderland for day two. You can do today's prompt, writing a 1 page play in 8 minutes!
Creative Writing Ideas features the Daily Writing Challenge, a Guest Writer's section, a section featuring my personal writing projects, currently my short story, "Alice", an array of narrative prompts and creative writing ideas, and soon author interviews, book reviews, and my thoughts on how new media is effecting the writing world.
You can submit your work to be featured in the Guest section by emailing emelinaminero@gmail.com with "Guest Writer" in the subject heading.
To check out my blog and to get involved in the Daily Writing Challenge, visit Creative Writing Ideas.
Creative Writing Ideas: Write a 1 page play in 8 minutes!
Creative Writing Ideas: Day 3 of the Daily Writing Challenge
Today is Day 3 of the Daily Writing Challenge! And today we are focusing on writing a 1 page play in 8 minutes. It will consist of filling out the Play Idea Worksheet in 3 minutes, and writing the 1 page play in 5 minutes. The point is to get us writing fluidly and consistently and to defeat the horrid monster, known as Writer's Block.
Here's the video, if you want to read the full post, you can find it here: Creative Writing Ideas.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Creative Writing Ideas: Be My Valentine?
Creative Writing Ideas: Daily Writing Challenge Day 1
Hello! I posted the 1st Narrative Prompt for the Daily Writing Challenge: Be a Kid's Valentine.
If you want a narrative prompt to spark your creative muse, this is it. Not only will you be writing, but you can also help make a kid happy. My friend is sending Valentine's to kids with cancer, and I dedicated my writing for today to them. :)
Check it. Help someone out, be happy, and get some cool creative writing ideas.
Creative Writing Ideas: Narrative Prompt for 1/19/11
Creative Writing Ideas: Narrative Prompt for Wednesday!
Good Morning! Today is day 1 of the Daily Writing Challenge (DWC) for Everyone! That means you! :) So let's get writing today, starting with Trippy Alice to help us with some creative writing ideas.
A narrative prompt for today: Create Dialogue.
Set up a 3 person scene, where Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the Cheshire Cat are having a conversation. Maybe there's other characters in here that I can't see that you do; you can add them. Or maybe only Alice can see the Cheshire Cat, which would make it for an interesting "3-way" conversation.
You can simply set it up like this:
Alice: Oh, I fell down this hole and seem to be lost. Who knew trees ate people whole? I hope I'm still alive, and not being digested within a human eating tree.
Cheshire: Hee he ha ha ho. Hello Alice. Maybe I was digested by the human eating tree too. Once I was digested by a cup eating tree. I was offended.
Alice: A cup eating tree? How strange?
MH: Strange! A cup eating tree strange! You must be mad!
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You can focus on making cutting edge dialogue with some narrative description, or you can use this as an easy free write to get your creative writing juices flowing.
The point of the Daily Writing Challenge is to simple write daily.
If you want to check out the original Daily Writing Challenge post, you can check it out here: Creative Writing Ideas DWC.
Check out the link above later in the day and you'll be able to see the Official Daily Writing Challenge Day 1 post, it involves helping others as part of your writing process. :) I hope you're inspired with a new creative writing idea, and good luck with writing! I'll see you tomorrow. Don't fall too far into the rabbit hole, or do. ;)
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Creative Writing Ideas: Daily Writing Challenge
Creative Writing Ideas: Join me in the Daily Writing Challenge!
It's that time of year again, that's right, the New Year! Let's use it to our advantage. Each year, we're memorized by the idea of new beginnings, let's not just be memorized, let's turn it into action! Let's get the year flowing with creative writing ideas.
It's the perfect time to become motivated. You'll have thousands of people newly motivated with your same goal, writing.
Join me in the Daily Writing Challenge.
Every day I am going to be posting to two blogs. One, lovewarrior.posterous.com. I have been journaling my daily self-love experience and posting it to the group blog, lovewarrior.posterous.com. Two, I will be writing a blog post every day to my blog, creative writing ideas. My goal is to generate a community of daily writers, a community that will post, share, and discuss their work, a community where we will be encouraging people to write consistently, to write daily.
Join me in my goal, and I'll help you write daily, as I will be doing the same. Visit here, where it describes the Daily Writing Challenge.
I hope to be writing with you soon!
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