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Passionate Writers Wanted: No Posers Allowed

• October 14, 2009 • 7 Comments

Posted in Advice, Baiting Readers, Creativity, Motivational Boosters, Passion
Tags: best, bloom, courtney vail, creative breath, dedication, desire, diamond, drive, emotion, great, Passion, passionate, persistence, poser, potential, prose, spark, story, strive, success, writer, writing

Unlocking the Block

• August 5, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Advice, Creativity, Motivational Boosters, Writing Exercise
Tags: freewriting, inspiration, unlock, writer's block, writing, writing exercises, zone

Building Memorable Characters

• July 20, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Advice, Baiting Readers, Building Characters, Creativity
Tags: building memorable characters, character, characterization, dimension, goals, heroes, heroine, humanize, Kings & Queens, layer, MC, protagonist, push, sho, show, sketch, strong protagnoists, texture

Collective Inspiration ~ Thank You All

• July 16, 2009 • 15 Comments

Posted in Creativity, Personal Notes, Poems-Shorts-&-More, Writing Exercise
Tags: art, artistic voice, creative burst, keywords, Passion, poem, poetic, prose, search engine terms, seo, weird, writer, writing

Discovering Art in Randomness

• July 13, 2009 • 4 Comments

Posted in Advice, Creativity, Motivational Boosters, Poems-Shorts-&-More, Writing Exercise
Tags: art, concept, creative burst, Creativity, dreams, inspiration, junk, poem, poetry, random thoughts, randomness, short story, time, Writing Exercise

Make Good on Your Promise…Go Visceral

• January 5, 2009 • 3 Comments

Posted in Advice, Baiting Readers, Building Characters, Creativity, Voice, Texture, Tone
Tags: 18 seconds, captivating, characters, courtney vail, critters, deja vu, description, five senses, george d. shuman, intuition, Kings & Queens, life, melissa marr, mind, novel, plot, readers, realistic, scents, sense, sensory impressions, spiritual sight, story, visceral, wicked lovely, writer

It’s Droubble Drabble Time

• November 14, 2008 • 2 Comments

Posted in Creativity, Poems-Shorts-&-More, Writing Exercise
Tags: courtney vail, drabble, droubble, the next big writer, times are tough, TNBW, writing competition

My Junk Drawer

• October 25, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Creativity, Personal Notes, Poems-Shorts-&-More
Tags: blood, celebrity vampire, nicole richie, paris hilton, seduction, short story, the next big writer, vampire

Hopelessly Addicted to Complexity

• October 15, 2008 • 7 Comments

Posted in Advice, Creativity, Personal Notes
Tags: addicted, complexity, courtney vail, fiction, novel, rollercoaster, rush, scene, writer, writing

Taking Drastic Measures to Bait & Hook

• October 10, 2008 • 2 Comments

Posted in Advice, Baiting Readers, Creativity
Tags: writer, author, writing, emotion, american idol, courtney vail, conflict, novel characters, bait and hook, drastic measures, action, struggle, hook

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