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<![CDATA[A New Tale ~ Creative Writing is FUN! - Blog]]>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:54:47 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[What if There Were… NO ARTISTS?]]>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 19:16:55 GMThttp://anewtale.com/blog/what-if-there-were-no-artists

WHY ART?
By Stu Leventhal

Every so often, the great debaters pose the question… ARE ARTISTS NECESSARY?

Many philosophers claim artists are not producing anything of real value nor are they contributing to society. They do not fix any problems so, could art and artists actually be holding humanity back?

If all the artists were forced to work in a factory… we’d have a lot more stuff that was actually useful.

As long as some people, somewhere, anywhere are starving, why not put our artists to work trying to feed these people in need?

Should artists be working all day on a painting or sculpting a statue or practicing dance moves when there are so many important things that need doing?

Of course, this is the same argument that folks present when they rant against our space program. “There is poverty and homelessness we should be using our money to end before we waist a penny on travelling to the moon and setting up space stations.”

So, do we ALL have our priorities mixed up?

No… We just like comforts.

We naturally want to mold the world immediately around us to meet our emotional needs.

Wearing bright patterned clothes that we deem stylish and hanging a colorful photo in a drab hallway does zip for our physical wellbeing. That porcelain panda statue on the shelf has no real function nor does our Puka Shell wristband. Yet, we gain pleasure from making ourselves into what we feel is more attractive and interesting to others. We also enjoy decorating our home to be more inviting and cozy.

With Art you are telling others that you lived…

“Look at this…This is what I know and want to share with you.”

One works on art to help figure out more about oneself…
“Am I capable of more?”
“Am I special?”

Thru our finished projects we try to define ourselves to others. Yes, sometimes we showoff thru using our art skills, which may be the most humanist thing artists do.

The truth is that the art work is not always the most important thing as many artists would have you believe. Sometimes we have other motives. Artists are human and flawed after all, just like everyone else in our society.

Life, the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of living as a person, is full of happenings that can’t be explained. With art we try to make our best attempts to puzzle out some of the many mysteries.

When something we encounter baffles us, perhaps our art will get people talking about it.
During the artistic toiling we often are delighted to find, we have uncovered new questions and riddles.

All along the way our art pushes us to develop better skills.

We get smarter, become more capable and build self-pride and confidence as we work on our art projects.

We practice problem solving and build character as we painstakingly try to get the details of our artwork perfect.

The best art often contradicts societies accepted thoughts about a subject or situation. Art shows things from a different angle. The artist is always thinking. "How can I dazzle my audience?"

The artist may wish you to tune into his or her mood.

Artists want to surprise you, make you laugh, cry, sigh...

Why go thru all this trouble just to say what has already been said a thousand times.

“If I am not giving you something that you cannot get anywhere else then it ain’t ART.”

The true artist is always learning each day, developing further.

When the artist realizes that they have reached a new plateau in understanding themself some more, they wish to shout it to the world.

What better way to proclaim the old me is gone, here’s the new better me!

Thus, we make new art.

So, is art necessary?

Probably not always but… ART is always FUN!

What is your favorite art form?

]]><![CDATA[Write Your Way to Fame]]>Sun, 02 May 2021 19:08:09 GMThttp://anewtale.com/blog/write-your-way-to-fame Keep Writing Fun!
By Stu Leventhal

I know you like writing. Sure, sometimes you get frustrated. A writer's life is full of self doubts. All of those other authors seem to be getting all the luck.

Why won't publishers and editors give you and your work a chance?

You care about one thing...WRITING! You write well. You study writing, old and new. You read, a lot! So what is the problem? Why can't you get your writing career going?

You have to write your way to stardom!

Celebrity as an author is not easy but you chose a fine profession if fame and recognition is what you seek. So how can you do it? How does a new scribe take hold of their destiny and go forth to forge their career breakthrough moment?

There are lots of writing stages that you can shine on...

Listen I know you got into this thing because you are more artsy than business minded. All artist and especially authors despise the commercial aspects of living.

Enterprise, entrepreneurship...BUSINESSS...are not your enemy!

Authors who pursue money are not... SELL-OUTS!

It is time to start treating your past time, hobby, PASSION...as a business!

First thing, know that businesses have competitors. You are in competition with every other writer out there who wishes to be the next Tolstoy, Kafka, Faulkner...

You have to get serious and learn some things about business. You do not want to get taken advantage of by unethical literary agents, publishers and internet trolls who put their own interests above yours.

You have talent. Your skills and ability are valuable. As an author, all you need is a pen and paper to make money. Few have an option like that!

I am going to let you in on a little author industry secret. You have to mingle with others like you, who love literature and believe writing truly is mankind's greatest legacy.

When you surround yourself with people who want nothing more than to get the greatest new writing out there to the world for all to enjoy, you no longer have to worry about having your writing ripped off.

One of the greatest pleasures in the literary arena is competing with other authors. There are so many geniuses for you to try to impress, surprise and delight.

Stop letting people who cannot write tell you how to write and what to write.

You became a writer or are pursuing a writing career because you want to be able to write on the beach, in the park, laying on your couch in your pajamas. A traditional 9-5 job is not attractive to you.

You put a lot of time into writing. You are proud of your creativity. It is time you start getting paid what you are worth.

It is time you start using your creativity to be more entrepreneurial.

Writing is a business...YOUR BUSINESS!

]]><![CDATA[The Copy Writing Makes All the Difference!]]>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 06:01:50 GMThttp://anewtale.com/blog/the-copy-writing-makes-all-the-differenceDoes Bad Marketing Hurt Your Business?

What’s your vote for the worst commercial of our decade, TV, Radio or magazine?

All of us have heard the saying, “All publicity is good publicity.” The theory is that if no one knows about you then they cannot make a decision of whether they like you or not. Folks have to at least, hear about you before they can do business with you.

We have all seen more than a few of those annoying TV commercials that are played over and over on certain stations and which seem to have been designed to get under our skin on purpose. Yes, we do remember those commercials vividly but the question is, “Do you think that shock, gross and planned annoying ads builds one’s business or in the long run actually harms business?”

Is all publicity really good publicity?

And please, feel free to share any current commercials running that make you want to pull your hair out every time they appear on the silver screen or come blaring thru your radio. Which are the worst commercials so far during 2018?

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]]><![CDATA[What Makes A Good Read]]>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 15:33:50 GMThttp://anewtale.com/blog/what-makes-a-good-readWRITING & READING by Stu Leventhal

Every word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, theme has to help your whole piece deliver a reading experience. It is not about the writer being witty; but about building an artistic piece. Ask yourself if your writing is really free from normal conventions. Are you cliche writing? Are you copying technique or creating a style to fit your own projects purpose? Do you create with integrity? Are you showing us, telling us what matters to you?

Everyday life is boring but the good writers remind us how wonderful every second really is. The best writers do not make the boring, exciting by adding; they point us where to look closer so we too can see what fascinates them.

For Example: Your setting is a big part of your overall reading experience. I get it; you have a plot and you believe that truly you could write the same tale in the future, present or the past. Example: Romeo and Juliet into West Side Story.

Know that your setting, when really strong, contributes to the plot and theme. Characters should not and cannot not talk a certain way or respond the same in different settings or the setting is just blah and meaningless. Can you see how dialog could mean something special thing based on important current events happening at a specific time? You will understand this the more you develop your characters as you get into the writing of the story.

Choose the time period and place based on how it helps you say what it is you wish to say. Make your setting vivid and powerful so that no one would ever suggest you should change it. Your setting brings extra meaning to the story and impact to the read.

All elements of a tale have to be important to the other elements. The theme should force characters to act and speak in certain ways. The history of a place should create ambiance and tone which enhances the reason for the theme being so important and impactful to your reader. Plot scenes and drama should help you demonstrate your theme. It all works together to deliver a BANG of a reading experience.

Blogs are becoming quite popular and they are gaining in literary quality every day. I do not feel bloggers should take their audiences for granted. Blogging is an opportunity to be amateurish but you should still try to empress. Respect your fans and audiences. Do your best work and your writing will get better and better and better…naturally!
Knowing why you want to blog and who you are blogging to or for, will help you decide how to go about starting your new blog.

I, like most people expect a blog to be better quality than social media; quality meaning grammar, word usage and language skills. A blog should be visually unique since you have many more features you can incorporate into the look and function of your blog than comes on social sites.

Know what other bloggers in your genre or niche are doing and give people a better time when they visit your blog.

Blogs do not have to be fun, you can tackle serious stuff but working on your blog should be fun for you its creator. Remember you are competing for fans with the pro bloggers. These folks are trying to make a living just with their blog so they will be pulling out all stops to empress their audiences. Are you contributing to the stuff already out there in cyberspace? Is your blog really necessary?

Make sure you are proud of your blog!

]]><![CDATA[How Does One Start the Telling of a Story?]]>Fri, 09 Sep 2016 12:46:32 GMThttp://anewtale.com/blog/-how-does-one-start-the-telling-of-a-storySTARTING A STORY
By Stu Leventhal

Often authors start by stating why they are writing the tale. “When I was in my childhood, I witnessed a horrific event…” Or, they start because something in their life happened, “Last night my older brother Henry didn’t come home…” Or maybe something is happening in society, locally or nationally or globally that angers them and they wish to speak out about it.

Perhaps a writer is just writing to ease their own daily tensions by getting things off their chest or trying to figure out how they feel about their own life. "I recently came to a very important decision and I would like to share the events with you that caused me to reevaluate just about all I had previously believed important."

Others write to preserve and record incidents so we all do not forget important things that happened or are occurring. Authors frequently like to honor an event that moved them or put a person on a pedestal who they admire.

A writer may come to realize that they feel deeply about something as simple as an old wise tale like, “Hardship and struggle is the road to the truth.” Therefore they decide, I am going to write a story that shows that perseverance and determination will eventually bring about happiness. They are starting with a theme that is dear to their heart and they are trying to demonstrating the life’s message they believe, through depicting an event real or imagined, fiction or nonfiction. Of course there will probably be other writers who wish to show that very same message is just false hope.

There are many reasons for telling a story and thus there are going to be infinite ways to start the telling. Usually the method or means of which you introduce your tale stems from a particular mood that you wish to create for your reader. You want to get your audience, into a particular state of mind so they are ready to receive the coming details of your story.

You may wish to shock your readers into paying full attention right at the beginning or it may be better to lull them into a peaceful, calm and tranquil state so you can delightfully surprise them a few paragraphs later.

A story has many component or features; characters, themes, plots, sub plots, a setting…. It is told from a particular point of view. A tale may not always be the author’s vision it can be told through the eyes and words of a character or told by an observer. Your author may wish you, the reader, to feel as if your writer is keeping his or her own opinions out of the telling and thus leaving it all up to you to decide the merits of the various aspects of the story. After all there are as many ways to judge a tale as there are to tell a tale.

Many authors like to start their stories in the heat of the action and then go back and let the reader know the backstory that lead up to the monumental event. This is to capture the reader’s interest from the start in hopes that once readers have invested themselves in reading a nice chunk of pages, they will continue to read the whole tale. Other scribes just start at the very beginning and let the story develop as it goes in precise chronological order of time, beginning to end.

Know that the beginning of your tale must be interesting enough to hook the reader in. Personally, I do not believe a good author starts any of his or her stories in the exact same way. Each story is unique and thus needs its own special starting point. More often than not the beginning of a book or short story has been re-written, reworked and retooled more than any other portion of the story.

The start of the reading must mesh with the title of the story. There must be intrigue. A hint of mystery or humor is usually a good way to get readers interested enough to keep reading.

My advice is to never delay, write! Start telling your story wherever you are most enthused about writing at the moment. Get your thoughts down on paper as they are coming to you. Do not spend time on creating the perfect opening to your tale before you write the tale because you can always write the beginning after the bulk of the story is written down or even finished. Many writers write their story’s opening last.

The key to starting a good story is writing, writing, writing… You need plenty of words to cut and change, reword and revise. You will probably create lots of events and dialog that get edited out in order to improve the flow of the story. Let your writing continue to flow. Experiment and try things out because, bear in mind, there will be revision steps and lots of rewriting.

Get the story written down and then later on, reorganize it into the order in which you wish to unveil things to your readers. Remember the start of your story is a promise you are making to your readers that you must deliver on if you wish them to become fans who cannot wait to read everything else you write.

In today’s modern world, full of flashy distraction, the art of storytelling is becoming more important than ever. Business writers and politicians are using stories. Professors, managers and educators of all kinds employ stories because stories are memorable. Stories teach and inform and inspire better and quicker than preaching or other formal classroom and text book like instruction. Stories simply make learning more enjoyable.

People have been telling each other engaging stories since the beginning of human existence. Storytelling will continue as long as mankind exists. Improving y your storytelling abilities will make you more popular and appear more intelligent whether you are in a writing career or not.

How does one start the telling of a great story? By showing how enthused and excited you are about sharing your tale with other people. Your audience must be convinced, in the first few words that you, their author feels it is very important that others hear what is about to be revealed.

How do you start writing a new story? Feel free to share your methods, techniques, ideas...
]]><![CDATA[On Education Studying & Learning]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:28:30 GMThttp://anewtale.com/blog/-on-education-studying-learning Learning, Teaching, Growing, Maturing…Nurturing Genius!

Teaching Skills Verses Educating Students with Real Empowering Wisdom

By Stu Leventhal - A NEW TALE

Telling students what is valuable to study and what is more valuable to know than other things is not preparing students for handling whatever they will encounter in their future.

What we need to do is give students the skills and tools they need to have the confidence for rising to the occasion when confronted by problems and challenges which as of yet are mostly unforeseen. We also have to teach them, to the best of our abilities, how to use what is available to them, all around them, for problem solving as well as for living life more fully and enjoyably.

Each student will have to use what is learned in their own way depending on their own particular situations they get immersed in. For example; creative writing instruction for penning a sci-fi, short tale, may not be appropriate advice for another student who has a history class, homework assignment to write an essay about the American Civil War. One is fiction and the other nonfiction but both require creative writing skill, good grammar and proper language usage to succeed.

First we give our students the tools they need then we must get out of the students way so they can play and explore using those tools. The object of schooling is not to turn kid’s minds into repeats or duplicates of our own minds and our ways of perception. We want something better for the next generation!

As we pass down our very best knowledge and wisdom our decisions on who is involved to receive the bounty of knowledge needs to have nothing whatsoever to do with the financial status of children and students. The standing in the community of one’s parents or child guardians or ancestors should have little to do with teaching kids. Man’s knowledge and wisdom must be available for all who seek it if society and mankind is to grow and prosper.

We wish to pass down our best knowledge so the next generations can continue where the past generations left off and thus mankind as a whole always moves forward.

Thus, the whole idea that good and great education is only for those whose families can afford to enroll their kids is just absurd!

You cannot fill all the universities up with the rich kids, give them diplomas so they get the best, highest paying, cushiony jobs and then be surprised when the poor folks are unhappy and revolt. It should also be no surprise when your jails are filled by mostly the poor community members, since we’ve given them limited means of making a decent living.

Education is for all who wish to partake!

Many of my peers, artists in every genre; dance, sculpture, painting, writing… say school often gets in the way of real, natural creativity. But that does not mean schooling cannot help even our so called naturally ‘born gifted’ artists to better develop, grow and mature their own styles faster and with more precision, accuracy and marvel.

Art being, as many feel, a quest for self-discovery; one must always challenge oneself to find out what we are really capable of. You never know what you can do until you push yourself to attempt the next level.

Never be complacent with a high mark from a professor, scholar or critic.

Since art is always morphing and reinventing itself, schools can offer opportunity for understanding and vital, insightful instruction even to our masters!

I am a fan of education and teaching and well-meaning instruction and learning, mentoring, tutoring and practice, practice, practice to equip our young students as well as older students for living fuller lives. One is never too old to learn! Never stop learning!

But, I just do not feel teaching is being done very well, responsibly or even being practiced fairly for the individual students or are our educational institutions and scholarly organizations in power showing great results.

Many of the certificates of graduation and degrees are not worth the paper they are printed on. Artists especially but students of all kinds must impress with their portfolios and body of work in the end!

Modern schooling paid for or provided by the State is poor, neglectful and often harmful and impeding to students’ growth development and even health. Schools often sprout low self-esteem and place doubt in their charges minds on many fronts.

Knowledge, surely, is something worth passing down from generation to generation. But what is more important is that each generation improves upon the last! Topics of study must meet the present community’s needs.

I can clearly see the need for incubators of pristine thought; the human produced world running as chaotic as it often does. But if one declares its sole purpose is to prepare youth for adult life and adults keep screwing up year after year, generation after generation when do the institutions of higher education with whom we put our faith into for developing and preparing our future leaders start to take responsibility for their inferior products and dubious end results.

Working on learning how to write well and reading the very best masters of literature are still the most important advice I can hand down to any enthusiastic student!

Fiction and nonfiction, of all genres are packed with life lessons.

There is a reason that genius is passed down from generation to generation. Truth and wisdom is not exclusive for one time period or only relevant to a long, lost era. Real knowledge transcends time and place and is applicable wherever you are, at any time.

*Whatever your goals and ambitions are, learning how to communicate and write better will help you get closer to achieving your dreams.

The best laid plans are not meant to be implemented alone. You cannot face down all adversity life and living will throw at you all by yourself all the time. Read A NEW TALE by Stu Leventhal. Learn how to write great!

You are going to need to use your writing skills over and over throughout your lifetime; shouldn’t your writing skills be the very best they can be?

Learn how to write persuasively! Intelligently! Clearly! Imaginatively!

WRITE IMPRESSIVELY!

*In our modern digital world, where everyone owns a handheld device, often one’s writing is the only thing that other people have to gage us by!

]]><![CDATA[WRITING PROMPTS THAT KINDLE HIGH LEVEL THINKING]]>Sun, 12 Jul 2015 16:49:55 GMThttp://anewtale.com/blog/-writing-prompts-that-kindle-high-level-thinkingNO MORE WRITER'S BLOCK
by Stu Leventhal

Every now and then even the most accomplished authors need some help to jog their minds into action. Writing Prompts are where the Pro Writers turn!

We live in hectic times and many creative writers, bloggers, authors, copy writers would like to be able to take more advantage of their unexpected moments of free time, when they present themselves, for writing purposes. But, it is not always easy for us scribes to just turn our imaginations on and off at will, like one does a light switch.

Writing prompts are things that prod and spur our creative genius into functioning vigorously. Anything can act as a thought stimulus or idea mechanism to mobilize a creative writer into thinking and writing modes.

For example, a writer suffering from a spell of the dreaded writers’ block syndrome could try playing some inspiring jazz music loudly to jar his mind into operation.

Sometimes doing anything that takes one’s mind completely off of the writing problem or writing task for a short spell of time will help renew a writer’s creative energy. When the wordsmith returns, after enjoying a quick break, to resume their writing and creative endeavors they are refreshed and can thus think more clearly and concentrate.

Reading other author’s works can give us motivation. Quality poetry is inspirational, especially rhymes and metered poems. Poems are designed to make us think and contemplate deeply.

The idea is to stop trying so hard to create; give your mind a quick rest so it can rejuvenate. When you come back to resume working again, first engage in some quick activity that’s purpose is to induce, stimulate, arouse and elevate your inner muse to perform at a very high elevated level. Anything that makes us start thinking and pondering even if it has nothing at all to do with our writing topic or project can be an idea generator and writing fertilizer.

Usually if we can rouse our curiosity or challenge our brain with a problem or question that we have to puzzle out; we can kick start the creative process! Throwing our brains into high gear is the goal.

When we sit down to write, sometimes the pressure to accomplish something of value, fast will immediately freeze our minds. When we cannot think quickly or artistically we get frustrated. To stir up some new valuable thoughts worth writing about, it is often helpful for an author, poet, web content writer or creative writer to have some trigger stimulus already prepared in advance just for this situation. Choose things that you know from previous writing fixes that have helped to get you out of a writing funk or draught in the past.

Some writers find it valuable to carry with them a pocket size dictionary; words after all are the building materials of the scribe’s art. Just opening up to any random page then skim and glance at whatever words come into view. Many words you know intimately. Read a definition of a word you do not know then another then another. Soon you discover you are thinking, vigorously, about all sorts of things seemingly all at once. Close the dictionary; you’re warmed up. It’s time to direct your mind’s efforts towards your task at hand.

Good writing prompts are more than just writing suggestions taken from our list of compiled new creative writing project possibilities or writing ideas that all serious writers should always have on a list nearby, on their person or at least within easy access. The best writing prompts set our writing process into motion and generate unique thought and high degrees of creativity.

Successful writing prompts are not suggested starts for new writing projects or a list of short summaries or notes on writing ideas to get us thinking about our topic. Creative Writing Prompts are meant to end a composer’s writing inertia and creative stiffness.

Good writing prompts have to unblock and unclog our word weaving minds so we are again, consciously in control of our thinking and our imagination and thus can resume slinging words focused on whatever writing task is at hand!

A news reporter, Hollywood Dramatist, Ad craftsman needs to be in command of his or her literary skills so he or she can practice their wordsmithing craft when they wish and how they wish. Being at the mercy of a psychic road block when you have a writing deadline to meet is no fun!

Can you see why having a list of new writing project starts is only good if you have no specific writing project you have to get done? Bloggers, journalists, novelists, essayists need to be able to work on the writing assignment that is due to be turned into their bosses next. Our reputation as a pro linguist is at stake. Even student writers do not have the luxury to only write when the writing spirit takes hold of them. Professors want their homework, essays, reports turned in on time as do editors and publishers!

Being in control of your creative skill is what separated the pro writers from the amateurs.

Many writes have had success summoning their creative muse, seemingly at will, with this exercise. Wherever you are, outdoors or indoors, simply take a fleeting moment to just glance around you with the sole purpose of choosing and rating the five most wonderful things in plain sight. Rate fast! Valuing things within your vision forces you to wonder why you placed more worth on one item instead of another.

You’ll wonder what your spouse or best friend or parent would say about your choices. What would a job hiring interviewer make of your five top choices, how about a psychiatrist? Imagine having a conversation with your favorite sports hero, politician or celebrity during which they judge you based only on your five choices? How would you defend your choices? Now your mind is working!

Real writers do not have to get themselves into the proper mood to write. They are compelled to write! But everyone needs to discipline themselves to focus their craft, skill, thoughts and efforts in order to achieve something great.

Writing is when writers are happiest. But that does not mean the words ever flow easy or that great writing is not hard work, tedious, frustrating and gut wrenching! Still, given the choice, most writers wouldn’t have it any other way.

Writing block strikes when we are trying to think too hard. But we also cannot always just write about whatever pops into our heads. A creative writer’s art has to be disciplined in order to make money with our composing. Most of the time, when our mind jams up, we have a writing job already under way that we are having problems completing or we cannot think our way out of a tricky writing wrong turn or a seemingly, dead end spot.

This is when we need to take our mind off of the problem at hand so we can sort of reboot our brains. The writing prompt exercise is a diversion which clears our heads then get us thinking strongly again when we return to write; sort of like a quick warming up session that an athlete undergoes to prepare, before participating in a sporting event.

The good writing prompt helps the writer tune out the world’s noise and distractions so they can get into their writing zone where the magic happens.

When playwrights, copywriters, ink slingers and web content creators are having writing difficulties and word producing problems ideally we want to try to focus our energy on anything other than the writing deed needed to get done. Creative writing prompts get our motor running, build our confidence again and start the ideas churning when we are ready to resume working.

Writing prompts psych us up so we are mentally prepared to sit down and tackle our most difficult writing challenges. They are not old brainstorming notes that we look over for ideas; they are brainstorming incentives, writing motivators and though provokers!

Remember a prepared creative writer has writing and idea prompters available to him or her, at all times, just in case. These wordsmithing prompts or literature writing stimuli are not writing suggestions or writing idea hints or beginnings, although those are good to have on hand too. These writing prompters are powerful thought arousing mechanisms that excite our minds into working at their highest level possible! They are very personal motivators and thus unique to every author.

The purpose writing prompts are to inflame an author’s brain and jolt the thought process into contemplating and reasoning at optimum levels!

Writing prompts are used by romance writers, mystery writers, sci-fi authors...

Do not think of writing prompts as a cheat sheet for ideas, visions or notions; they are meant to get your mind’s engine working on all pistons not to give you a head start on a writing assignment. Writing Prompts warm up our minds and then we tell our mind what to concentrate on and work on! Writing prompts help give us control over our creative muse, so our muse is working for us instead of us jumping through hoops for our muse.

An author, poet, song lyricist who cannot sit down and create whenever the opportunity presents itself, as well as tackle the writing task he or she wishes to work on, would be severely handicapped and unable to complete writing assignments on schedule and timely!

Writing prompts help Fiction and nonfiction authors to think, create and compose their very best writing work consistently and quickly! When wise writers need a pick-me-up they do not rush off to purchase or brew some caffeine rich beverage like coffee; they rely on their pre-prepared writing prompts to stir and revitalize their imaginations!

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