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How to Make Room for an MC’s Backstory

How to Make Room for an MC’s Backstory

By izzy-grabs-life June 22, 2022 Leave a comment

What is the best advice you received or could give about including backstory?

In Defense of Writing Tropes

In Defense of Writing Tropes

By izzy-grabs-life June 20, 2022 Leave a comment

Are tropes something to be avoided at all cost?

And This One’s For You (Flash Fiction)

By izzy-grabs-life June 21, 2016 20 Comments

I’ve been gone from the blogosphere for a long time. As I come back, it’s only fitting that I would join in Priceless Joy’s writing challenge, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers. Thank you, TJ Paris, for providing the inspiring photo prompt this week. If you haven’t heard of or joined this challenge, please try it out. […]

Voilà (Flash Fiction)

By izzy-grabs-life October 13, 2015 15 Comments

Big thanks to Priceless Joy for hosting Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers (75 – 175 words) and Sonya for providing the inspiring photo prompt this week. If you haven’t heard of or joined this challenge, please do yourself a favor and check out PJ’s blog for more details and entertaining entries. You won’t regret it. * Now onto the […]

Our Sweet Adela (Flash Fiction)

By izzy-grabs-life September 23, 2015 21 Comments

I can’t thank the wonderful Priceless Joy  enough for hosting Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers (75 – 175 words) and Graham Lawrence for providing the inspiring photo prompt this week. If you haven’t heard of or joined this challenge, please do yourself a favor and check out PJ’s blog for more details and entertaining entries. You won’t regret […]

Infinity Dream Award!!

By izzy-grabs-life September 8, 2015 10 Comments

Hey one, hey all! A special thanks to Mark from Coloring Outside the Lines for passing on this award! ❤ I’m honored to accept this from a fellow blogger who also loves hiking. I hope one day I’ll witness the glorious natural sounds of Glacier Bay, Alaska. If you haven’t already, check out his blog and the blogs of his other […]

Where You Go (Flash Fiction)

By izzy-grabs-life September 1, 2015 11 Comments

I declare much thanks to the wonderful Priceless Joy for hosting Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers (75 – 175 words) and Louise (The Storyteller’s Abode) for providing the inspiring photo prompt this week. If you haven’t heard of or joined this challenge, please do yourself a favor and check out PJ’s blog for more details […]

7x7x7x7 Writing Challenge

By izzy-grabs-life August 31, 2015 3 Comments

Monday is the new Sunday, guys! . . . Well, not really—I just missed this Sunday challenge on Twitter (@WritingIzzy). Even so, I’m accepting it. BIG thanks to my fellow writers and mentee hopefuls @Married2ARod and @alannalp.

Speak Up! Friday Quotes (23)

By izzy-grabs-life August 28, 2015 7 Comments

A wonderful, and I do mean wonderful, beta reader of mine found out my main character was black in the later half of my first chapter. When she did, she strongly suggested that I make my MC’s race clearer from the beginning (to “show her skin color” and “describe her neighborhood”)—because this beta had pictured someone who looked […]

White Leaves (Flash Fiction)

By izzy-grabs-life August 25, 2015 40 Comments

To the wonderful Priceless Joy, for hosting Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers (75 – 175 words) and Dawn M. Miller for providing the inspiring photo prompt this week. If you haven’t heard of or joined this challenge, please do yourself a favor and check out PJ’s blog for more details and entertaining entries. You won’t regret it. Without […]