Always quirky, sometimes sweet speculative fiction
I just posted another writing prompt over on the Vision Writers website. It has the potential to become a time suck too though, browsing through all that lovely art. On the other hand, it’s much more unlikely you’ll have the same idea as another writer.
I hope you’ll check it out and enjoy it if you’re a fellow writer 🙂
I’ve been blogging on the Vision Writers’ site again, this time another writing prompt with a princessey twist.
Make your way over and check it out and (hopefully) be inspired 🙂
Blogging once more on the Vision Writers website about yesterdays meeting and what I thought was the best piece of advice given. Curious? Check it out – and my sneaky gaming reference(which I’m delighted to have snuck in since I was wearing a shirt that had an in-joke for players of the Atelier series of games at the meeting ;p )
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picture sourced from Wikimedia commons and the National Library of Norway
Blogging about the April meeting (which we had a week early to avoid Easter) over at Vision Writers. Head over to check it out.
I’ve just posted another writing prompt on the Vision Writers website. If you’d like to check it out, click over and see what you can do with ‘Retronomicon‘.
Blogging about today’s meeting over on VisionWriters.net about one of the biggest take aways from today’s feedback: using tropes to your advantage while avoiding cliches that make your readers roll their eyes.
I’m blogging over at VisionWriters.net again today. This time it’s a writing prompt for Valentines day that encourages you to match a pair of personal ads with hilarious results.
Today I’m blogging over on the Vision Writers website about wish fulfillment and the journey, some lessons learned at yesterday’s Vision Writers meeting. I hope you’ll head over and check it out.
Today I’m blogging over on the Vision Writers website. I’ve posted a writing prompt and I’d love it if you’re inspired by it.
Kirstie Olley is an award-winning speculative fiction author and the full-time wrangler of her children Xander and Harlequin.
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