Cinquain. A Crapsey cinquain. Remeber it’s one of the syllabic poetry forms I mentioned in last week’s post. The Crapsey cinquain was developed by a woman named Adelaide Crapsey, an American poet. As per its name, the cinquain has five lines. The Crapsey cinquain follows a strict syllabic form: Line 1 – 2 syllables Line […]
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
How is that for a throwback to childhood and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood? But seriously wouldn’t it be great to have a large community of neighbors who are interested in what you have going on? I don’t mean in a nosy way, but in a genuinely interested way. Sometimes I really do. And the good thing […]
Continue reading3 Reasons Writers & Makers Use Facebook
I realized a few days ago that I’ve been on Facebook for over ten years. Sometimes I wonder why. I started out with no purpose other than keeping up with friends and family. Then I decided it would be a good way to promote my writing. There are several reasons why someone would want to […]
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Amber Daulton is the author of the romantic-suspense series Arresting Onyx and several standalone novellas. Her books are published through The Wild Rose Press and Books to Go Now, and are available in ebook, print on demand, audio, and foreign language formats. Amber lives in North Carolina with her husband and four demanding cats. [youtube […]
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Welcome to day 1 of 5 Days to Get Out of a Creative Rut! Today, I ask that you make an Idea Pocket. In case you missed the description of what an Idea Pocket is, you can read it here. Now, how do you make an Idea Pocket? It’s pretty easy. For the simplest version, […]
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Yesterday, I told you some things you’ll need for the creativity challenge – 5 Days to Get Out of a Creative Rut. Today, I’m going to tell you a little bit about one of the key tools you’ll put together tomorrow. The Idea Pocket. The purpose of The Idea Pocket is to promote creativity. Through […]
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I made two mistakes. First, on Tuesday, I did a book spotlight for a book that’s already been promoted and free. I can’t do that one again until 90 days have passed. Second, today, I almost forgot to do a blog post. With the way today has gone, I thought about not doing one at […]
Continue reading5 Days to Get Out of a Creative Rut
I like participating in challenges. Do you? I decided to create a challenge to introduce us to each other before the 40 Days of Creativity course starts later this month. So what is this challenge? It’s 5 days to get out of a creative rut. I know we all get stuck in them once in […]
Continue readingComing Up: Guest Posts
One of the things I have been wanting to do here is to have some guest posts. To that end, I have some coming up pretty soon. I only have a few currently planned, but if you want to share a post with us, here’s how you can do that: If you’re interested in writing […]
Continue readingBoredom vs. Quiet
Let’s revisit the poll I posted a few days ago. I asked if boredom was necessary for creatives. I didn’t get a lot of response, but that’s OK. I got a couple comments — here and on other social media platforms — that helped me formulate what I want to say. On my Facebook page, […]
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