Ruth loves writing prompts. She facilitates and attends several writing groups that use them, and she is a member of our group. As she pointed out, we use monthly writing prompts for our ezines. For herself, Ruth writes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.
Continue reading The World Abounds in Prompts: Using Prompts to Stimulate and Deepen Your Writing by Ruth LeibowitzCategory Archives: inspiration
Writing Advice from Steven Campbell, author of Hard Luck Hank, May 2022
Steven’s conversation touched on many writing topics, so I’ve tried to collect things under headings for you. Please let me know if I’ve missed any favorite nuggets from what he had to say.
Continue reading Writing Advice from Steven Campbell, author of Hard Luck Hank, May 2022Writers’ Mill Minutes May 15th 2022
Writers’ Mill Minutes May 15 2022
Sunday’s Writers’ Mill meeting was well attended with several new people joining us to listen to Steven Campbell talking about the writing life. The meeting started with a great presentation of the May “Reach for the Sky” contest results from Lyndsay.
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes May 15th 2022Productive Procrastination, or Getting Your Ducks in a Row
Notes from Sheila’s talk on Getting our Ducks in a Row
Continue reading Productive Procrastination, or Getting Your Ducks in a RowWriters’ Mill Minutes Feb 2022
Around 20 members attended February’s meeting, enjoying the chance to learn how to productively procrastinate or write as Sheila gave her presentation on “Getting our ducks in a row.”
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes Feb 2022Protected: Monsters are Needy – a talk from Author, Editor and Ghostwriter Erick Mertz
Mystery Workshop with Cindy Brown July 19th 2020
Mystery Workshop with Cindy Brown
Writing Character-Based Mysteries
Cindy Brown
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info@cindybrownwriter.com
Books: Macdeath, The Sound of Murder, Oliver Twisted, Ivy Get Your Gun, The Phantom of Oz, Killalot, Murder Most Theatrical (Anthology – August 2020)
Continue reading Mystery Workshop with Cindy Brown July 19th 2020CHALLENGES – 2020 Anthology
Topic
Challenges
Open to
Member of the Writers’ Mill
Deadline
End of the first Sunday of September
What we’re looking for
Please collect your challenges stories, from Writers’ Mill contests, from your computer, from your dreams and nightmares, or from anywhere else you can find them. Send entries to anthology at portlandwritersmill dot org.
Submission requirements
- No more than 5 separate entries per person (not counting pictures)
- No more than 5,000 words in total – for example, you might send one 5,000 word novella, or five 1,000 word essays…
- Pictures will be included as appropriate. Feel free to send pictures with your entries, or separately from your entries, but remember all images must be royalty-free for us to use them in a published work.
Book List from Zita
Zita suggested this list of books that “read” differently, to inspire us to maybe “write” differently too.
Continue reading Book List from ZitaWriters’ Mill Minutes 202005 May 2020
Around 20 people attended May’s Writers’ Mill meeting, hosted again by Laura on Zoom. Our thanks to Laura and to everyone else at Cedar Mill Library who are helping us stay together during this time.
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 202005 May 2020