Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive

I'm so excited Honestly, it's been such a rush hosting Scarlet Quill meetings and this month was no exception. If you haven't been checking out our supplemental content, you're missing out on a lot. This month our guests discussed the ways that some tropes reverberate...

Tossing stones - or spaghetti Sometimes writing feels like tossing stones into a still pond just to watch the ripples. What effect will this phrase, this line of dialog, this scene have on the rest of the story? And sometimes it feels like tossing spaghetti at the...

Love, actually Confession time. I unashamedly love romcoms (yes, even the dodgey ones like the one in the header). I know, I know, I know. They're too often cheesy and trite, and sometimes they're downright problematic, but they're my guilty pleasure, my vice. They're...

Living at Work No matter what our hobby or passion is, we all find ourselves disconnected from that part of ourselves due to what life throws at us from time to time. For me, working from home has really turned me away from writing. Now while you couldn't pry my new...

In like a lion and out like another whole lion with a chip on its shoulder, apparently March! It's Spring (or Fall) officially! The days are longer (or shorter) than the nights already! (This is, by the way, some !@#$#@$@#@, especially with DST already here.) But...

Saving the day As a parent, I often feel like I'm not quite living up to the standards society has set for parenting. Do I pack a healthy three-course lunch for my kid every day? No. Do I shuttle my kids to seventeen different activities every week? Nope; just one...

Nothing. Nowhere. Once In a While. That whole “write what you know” trope we were taught in school is some bullshit. If everyone had followed that advice, we’d never have sci-fi or most, hopefully, horror novels. We’d never have Everything, Everywhere, All At Once....

I smell a rat This morning, I found a rat in my garden. It was dead. I spotted it when I went out to water, before I took my (supposed rat catcher) dogs for a walk. I live in an area that's often plagued by rats and mice and I have a fairly productive (container)...