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Wishing you a great holiday season!
Many thanks to all who have followed Yellow Pencils this year. I hope 2015 brings you an abundance of story ideas, creative bursts, and time to put words to the page.
Yellow Pencils will be back in two weeks for another year of writing tips and prompts.
Happy ho-ho-holidaying!
Ho ho ho! It's time to write to Santa.
What do we writers really want?
Instead of asking for the newest gadgets under our tree, what if we request inspiration for our writing?
What if we ask Santa to bring us patience, or confidence, or other qualities that help us begin and finish the best story we can write?
This year, I'm asking for:
- Belief in myself when I lose faith in my story.
- Perseverance when I'm writing yet another draft.
- Humility to ask for help from a teacher or another writer when I need it.
- Curiosity to keep looking for great story ideas.
- Genius--just kidding, but wouldn't it be nice?
How about you? What qualities would you like to find under your tree?
I normally write realistic fiction, but there are times I like to think about writing fantasy stories.
Like when I look at this tree.
I took this photo in England, but this wonderful, gnarled tree says to me, "magical setting."
Who or what lives in the tree? How old is it? What is the name of the forest? What is about to happen?
Use this tree for the setting of a fantasy story, and see what you discover. It may be something magical.
This week it snowed here where I live. How about you?
Whether you get five feet of snow a year or none, you probably have some feelings about snow. When you see, hear, smell, touch (and even taste) snow falling, what emotions do you feel?
Do you love the first snowfall of the year? Why? Do you hate snow and cold? Why?
Do you wish it would snow where you live? Do you wish it would STOP snowing where you live?
Let's write about snow. We can use our five senses--taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing--to describe it. We can remember a fun time or a sad time when snow was falling.
Do you wait at the window for the first snowfall? Do you hope for a blizzard so you'll get a snow day from school?
However you feel about snow, this phenomenon from the sky is pretty amazing.
Write about this white, fuzzy stuff that for many of us spells w-i-n-t-e-r.
