Learn How to Use Daily Prompts

This week, why not try going on a walk or looking at photos of places online. Write down some thoughts and associations, and see if any of that material inspires a scene. Wherever you are, you can always capture ideas in Bookflow using your phone.

Whenever I attend a talk by a prominent writer, someone always stands up during the question and answer to ask about their artistic process. It’s always interesting to hear how writers spend their day and what makes them productive.

Fiction is the art of showing related events that result in a character’s transformation. We are the result of our choices and our actions; that’s the lesson learned over and over both in fiction and memoir. As Heraclitus famously said, “Character is destiny.”