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  • Learning Poetry: False Apology

    Write about it here! Stanza 3: Hurray! It's time for the false apology! Don't be too nice. workshop hoping you will learn how to write real poetry Forgive me please tell your parents The writing Want to write your own false apology poem now? Write a (false) apology for doing so. Write a false apology poem centred around this scenario.

  • AUTHOR INTERVIEW With Lauren Hildebrand

    Apparently too young to actually write. She asked “If you could write like anyone, who would you want to write like?” That is not  how you write a working novel. My writing habit was to get up at 6 a.m. five days a week and write for an hour before I went to work I was writing a story about faith and the Lord had me write it by faith.

  • Sardine Standoff: An ABC Story by Lydia Baines

    When Lydia sent me a story she wrote in response to this post, I emailed her back promptly, asking permission

  • The Goose Girl: Free Verse

    . geese are grazers, you know. the goose girl sighs. a happy sigh, you know. a life-is-good sigh, a contented perfect mud, you know. oozy mud, slippery mud, perfect-for-curious-beaks mud, worms-in-the-dirt mud, white-feather-staining is where you will find the geese, rain or shine, here they will be. girl, geese, mud, water, grass, contentment

  • One Busy Mom: A Story (Originally Published by Nature Friend Magazine)

    This was a big deal for me, as it was my first success actually getting paid for my writing. says the contented baby, wandering off to explore a patch of bright yellow dandelions.

  • Welcome To Canada Lily: A Tool For Young Writers

    faith, in purity" 1 Timothy 4:12 ESV I intend to use this as a kind of "site motto," meaning that the content Canada Lily is in part a place to continue practicing my writing, it is also a good way to practice crushing As for content, my intent is to publish articles about the writing craft that will be helpful to young writers such as myself.

  • Learning Poetry: Haiku

    I used it while writing this post, and it did a pretty good job. a Haiku How to Write a Haiku Poem, With Haiku Examples Prompts: Write a haiku featuring a specific season Write a haiku about your pet. Write a haiku portraying an emotion. Happy writing, friends! Wishing you a happy New Year as well.

  • Learning Poetry: Clerihew

    Feel free to write about someone you know well instead.) Are you ready to get writing? I am! Pull out your poetry notebook and set it up like this: A A B B Next, decide who you are going to write Write a poem about your pet or a favourite animal. Keep it amusing. Write your bio in clerihew style. Do you have a friend who loves to laugh?

  • Three Feet of Trouble: Part Four

    It was then that Indira let loose the highest pitched, longest scream she could possibly muster. Ever so slightly, the corner of the writhing book began to smoke.

  • The Story Behind Three Feet of Trouble (what inspired the tale, & where it all began)

    Feet of Trouble began as a short little story that took up just three small pages in my pretty pink writer's Originally written as a submission to a writing contest run by Dandelion Press , it was inspired by Lori Curious writer that I am, I responded to their desperate pleas. one very evil little man; a grandfather who is thought to be dead, but isn't; two different worlds connected

  • It Happened! I Submitted My First Book Manuscript! 🥳

    I want to use my "fancy" address labels. a.k.a. plain white ones with my address in Times New Roman, It is common for writers to receive several manuscript rejections before a publisher finally picks up Update 01/03/25: Since writing the majority of this post on Friday, I received an email inviting me to Now, writing 50,000 words in 50 days might sound crazy to you, and that is fine, because it sounds the Ideally, I will write 1,000 words each day, although I know it will be more or less than 1,000 some days

  • Caged

    Write a short story about 'Freedom.' Okay, I thought, I can do that. Back in 2022, Caged was awarded an Honourable Mention in humanitasfamily.net 's Freedom Short Story Contest

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