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
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Scribophile
So this week as I was writing and realizing that I don't get to share much more of Rose with you guys, I started to feel lonely. I need a writer buddy who I can share all my stuff with and who will share their writing with me too. I started Hypergraphia as… Continue reading Scribophile
Free Write #3
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
My Favorite Writer
I found one of these images the other day and I decided to compile a collection of the struggles of my favorite writer. I hope you enjoy! ~Alyson
New Books
Well, I had a very profitable birthday last week. I received four books as presents. Later, we stopped by a yard sale and I bought six Mary Higgins Clark mysteries at 5 cents each. Even later than that, I got to spend an hour inside Barnes & Noble just wandering. The last time… Continue reading New Books
Writing Challenges
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
More Old Poetry
Just a few quick notes to start of this post- 1) Thank you to Husband of Mine for my lovely new logo! I absolutely love it and I hope you do too. He is awesome. 2) I apologize for the missing post last week, but I have really not been feeling well and… Continue reading More Old Poetry
Some Old Poems
I compiled some random poems from the past four years of my life to post. The first ones are the oldest, and the last one is the most recent that I wrote. The topics vary from my brief period running track in high school, to the emotional struggles of a teenager, to when… Continue reading Some Old Poems
A Good Start
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
Free Write #2
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