Join the Flash Lit Collective

Hello writers, poets, and storytellers! Welcome to Flash Lit. Three times a year, in February, June, and October, we throw caution to the wind and write short pieces just for fun (and bragging rights)(and to practice publishing our work)(and to beef up our blogs). We call it The Flash Lit Collective. Every three days, I post a new prompt with a 3-day deadline. …

Word Count Challenge

Wheel of Word Counts! If you’re planning to participate in NaNoWriMo and you have yet to fully flex those writing muscles of yours, it’s time to do some word count warm-ups! You don’t want to pull anything the first day or two of NaNoWriMo and give up, do you? Spin the Wheel of Word Counts! every day in October to find out your …

Write by the Pool 2021

FULL Friday, July 16 through Monday, July 19 Imagine yourself poolside at the Peppermill Reno, working on your novel in a private cabana with a handful of other writers doing the same thing. Picture yourself adding word count between dips in the pool and getting to know your fellow retreaters, making more significant progress on your book — or blog — or short …

ONLINE Mini Retreats

Every third Saturday of the month: Join us for a day focused on you, your creativity, and making significant progress on your wanna-get-it-done project. Why give up a Saturday for this? Because it works and you are worth it. It feels sooooo good to spend the day immersed in writing and creating. It feels sooooo good to wrap up the day having occupied …

WRITING PRACTICE Daily Pages

Who else needs a coping mechanism right now? Who else needs to feel productive? Who else needs a place to vent?? Thank goodness for Daily Pages, our old friend! How’s your writing habit going? Has it fallen away? Become stronger? Not a thing yet? Daily Pages is a wonderful, helpful journaling process that has served many writers and creatives at all different levels …

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