Category: Writing Practice

    It's been a really long time since I've done random prompt writing. It's been a while since I've done real creative writing. I spent a lot of time writing a short summary of the idea I had for my Cinderella retelling that doesn't at all fit in with any part of Rose. It sucks… Continue reading The Princess in the Tower

    Once again, I apologize for my lack of blog posts. At least this time I have an excuse. I have been plotting. Cue the evil laugh. No, I'm kidding. It's been the good kind of plotting. Mostly.     So for this post I'm going to talk about different ways to plot, and how… Continue reading Plotting

    After a few days of a break from writing Rose, I started to slip back into my old EVIL habits of not focusing on writing at all.  Even though I was spending most of my time editing, my writing became incredibly rusty.  BAD ALYSON!!!!!  I started this blog so I wouldn't encounter these problems!!!… Continue reading Free Write #4

    As I said yesterday, I have been searching through prompt after prompt from my new book, 642 Things to Write About.  Some of the prompts are more specific while others are incredibly vague.  Here's one of the prompts I found and at first didn't think anything of it, but later as I was… Continue reading Free Write #3

    When I was in my first Creative Writing class, we spent one day doing a variety of writing challenges.  One of the challenges was to write a fairy tale ending.  I would like to challenge my readers to do the same thing.  It was super fun to do, and I don't want to do… Continue reading Writing Challenges

    After the great views I got on my last short story, I decided to write another one to see how things go.  I hope you like it.  This one ends much happier than the other one too.  It comes from a prompt that jumped right out to me because I relate to it… Continue reading A Good Start

    After searching Pinterest for inspiration for today's blog post, I decided to do another prompt free write using characters from Rose because last time it was really fun and helpful for me.  I actually decided I want to use that last free write I wrote in the book, so I'm hoping this scene ends… Continue reading Free Write #2

    Today, I decided to share some poetry on my blog.  Writing poetry is something I rarely do now, but in the past it was almost a daily occurrence.  Having lost my poetry notebook, I was left without anything to share except promises of posts in the future when I find my notebook.  However, In honor… Continue reading Firework