Day: 9 November 2022

Writing dare: One of the central characters turns out to be a Russian spy

We dare you to reveal that one of your characters is in fact a spy working for the Russians.

#NaNoWriMo padding: Postcards to granny

Pad your word count by having a character stop in every new location to buy a postcard, buy stamps, and post the postcard. String this out for as…

IRL writing dare: Skip meals all day to write about hunger more realistically

Skips two or three meals so that you are really hungry. Use that hunger to more accurately depict one of your characters being hungry.

Writing dare: The fate of the world will now be decided by coffee

For reasons that only you can tell us about, the fate of the world no hinges on coffee. Is coffee going to save the world, damn the world,…