Today, instead of a writing tip, I have a ten-minute writing exercise for you. ๐ The idea is to describe what your protagonist is wearing at the beginning of your story. (Or if you haven’t got a story right now,
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What is your protagonist wearing?
Colour!
Writer’s Block
Surely every writer suffers from writer’s block at some time in their writing lives. After all, none of us are robots! This feared and dreaded affliction is a part of the creative process โ ditch diggers don’t get ditch digger’s block, carpet layers don’t get carpet layer’s block, but writer’s block (all joking aside) can be a very real problem. And there are levels of it, because writing is creative โ it’s an art, not a science…
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