How to get the story out of your head and on the page. A collection of blog posts full of writing tips and encouragement. Writing is an ongoing learning experience and whether your a successful novelist or about to pen your first book, there's always room for tips and encouragement. I'll be posting weekly instalements here and I hope you find something that helps you with your writing. Cheers! And if you're thirsty for more, I've compiled some of my most popular writing posts all in one place on my blog under the 'For Writers' tab.

These are NOT your typical writing prompts. I find most writing prompts too general or specific to be helpful. The ones in this book are just generic enough to spark your imagination and everyone's response will be completely different. Depending on your story idea, plot, characters and writing style, the response to the following prompts will look vastly different from another writer's. How does this work? Well, when you hit a roadblock in a particular scene, play with one of the prompts and see how your character responds, what comes out of their mouth. Then, let the other characters respond to that line. Here's an example. For the following prompt, I can have a character respond one of many ways (and I literally just came up with these as I'm writing this book summary). SAMPLE PROMPT - Ask someone to leave Now, what's the next line out of your character's mouth? Is it: -- You know what, get the hell out! -- Look, I'm tired. Can we talk about this tomorrow? I'll have Peter drive you home. -- Will you please just leave! I can't do this. I can't talk to you anymore! -- Either he goes or I go. Which will it be? See how all these are very different ways for a character to essentially ask (or try to force) another character to leave? The key is to work with the response that works best for your situation. You should have a sense of what the scene is about and your character's goals, but that's all you really need! I love these prompts. You can insert them any time you hit a wall. They always seem to get my creative juices going. Sometimes I find that I've gone on to write an entire scene and I didn't even end up keeping the lines that the prompts generated! It was enough just to get me unstuck and get my characters interacting again. I hope these prompts can help others too. If folks vote and comment to let me know that they've helped, I'll post 10 prompts per chapter for the next 10 weeks. Cheers! We'll start with a chapter and a bonus one too.

Sophie Green calls the shots in sex and love as both her childhood nemesis, Shawn Henderson, and the mysterious new heartthrob, Landon Pearce, vie for her romantic attention. But when she discovers that she's the target of a secret world of monsters, can she keep her life under control? ***** Sophie is so anti-social she can barely stand other human beings, so she definitely draws the line at non-human entities like gryphons and dragons, especially when it comes to dating. But when tragedy hits, Sophie's whole world shatters and she's left with a choice: face the painful truths of life, or leave her humanity behind forever. If she wants to be the boss of her own fate, Sophie will have to learn to tell apart the mess in her heart from the madness of a world where monsters are real. [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by Ren T

"Just because you're puppet doesn't mean I'll play with you."

Friday night's doorbell chime brings a hot pizza delivery dude to Evie's apartment, bringing new meaning to TGIF!

Selena is found dead one early morning. Odd thing is, her ex-best friend Sunny is next to her, with bloody hands. What happened between them that lead to this tragic end? Can Sunny escape her secrets? This is a story about two girls in a rich, white, poisonous town. Sunny, the only Chinese girl in Wrestler High, is singled out and shammed online by a group of popular "IT" girls- the leader of which turns out to be Selena. Overnight, everybody becomes the enemy, and for months Sunny ducks her head down and lives Under Her Skin, scared of being completely exposed to a world that tracks and judges her. Battling with racism and discrimination for far too long, Sunny's anger soon turns into courage. Full of pain, and pushed to the edge of life, Sunny would do anything to stop carrying the weight of being the only. Perhaps, even murder.

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What happens when your imaginary friend gets all too real? Emma hasn't seen her sister's family in seven years. After a fate meeting, now Emma is living with them. The relationship with the kids were rocky at first, but after an incident with the housekeeper, Emma is now doing her best to take her place. But the youngest kid, Lilly, makes an imaginary friend named Harly that likes to cause trouble. After a while Emma starts to notice that maybe Harly isn't so imaginary after all. What if he's real, and worse sinister?

After battling with a life threatening disease, Stephanie finally got the all clear on her health. She was free to live her life. She is starting a new school at the start of the year, planning to just finish high school with no problems. But then a certain asshole and his friends come barging into her life and she is thrown into a world of chaos. *Added to @humour's 'Young.Dumb.Full Of Fun!' reading list 8/8/2018* * Reached #1 on Humor's official hot list 1/1/2020*

|| Highest Rank - #1 in Teen Fiction and #5 in Romance || Melody Carson has been in the same class as Tyson McCannon since primary school. She's watched him play with girls, set the school on fire, skip classes, prank teachers, smoke behind the school, break the law, get into fights with other guys for fun and even watched him get suspended for three weeks. He always ruins everything and never does what he is told. Melody has hated him since the day he set foot in her school and luckily he has never noticed her. That is, until now. Tyson has set his eyes on Melody and won't stop until he gets what he wants. And he wants her. *-*-* Note: It is cliché at first but it gets better. [COMPLETED] Copyright © by Laylaa Khan