Creative Writing

Write some scenes. Win a great prize. To kick off the New Year, I hereby declare January to be Scene-Writing Month here at Go Into The Story. Every Monday-Friday, I will upload a post with a scene-writing prompt. Each day, write a scene per those guidelines. Upload your scene here…

I am fascinated by creativity, in particular how creativity manifests itself in the wide variety of people I meet or learn about. That has been one of the more intriguing aspects of the many interviews with writers I’ve been fortunate to do over the years. Routine or Ritual? Those of…

Write some scenes. Win a great prize. To kick off the New Year, I hereby declare January to be Scene-Writing Month here at Go Into The Story. Every Monday-Friday, I will upload a post with a scene-writing prompt. Each day, write a scene per those guidelines. Upload your scene here…

We didn’t have iPads back then to pass the time — Seventeen more hours on the Greyhound and he’d be to Yellowstone. He’d left home thirty-five hours ago, and except for making a quick transfer at the Chicago bus terminal, he hadn’t set foot on solid ground since. The Windy City’s bus number was 714. …