How? Well, I share videos/posts as a roadmap and a process. You’re welcome to start at the beginning of the oldest and work your way forward or you can dip in and out, but each question, each thought, each video is designed to help you think about yourself, your life, and what you want from it -creatively- and how we can help you get to that point. Creativity thrives in community! Not as I write or paint, but the conversations, the readers and audience, the collaborations, the inspiration and ideas we share... Get Creative is a small group at this point, but we'll expand out and become what we all need: a creative cohort. Stick around, make this work for you, take the questions, sit with them, play with them and be inspired by each other. Here you will find tutorials about creative writing, workshops both live and recorded, one to one coaching, daily writing prompts, and all things creative as part of a supportive community. I hope that this helps. Please introduce yourself in the comments below and let us know where you live, what you create, and more importantly what you want to make this year! I want to celebrate the process with you so add a few photos of a recent project.

I thought I'd mix it up and give you a writing prompt, inspired by teaching online again... For all the flash fiction writers here! Freewrite 500 words that uses the following three phrases. - a stench of unaired emotions - so many wrinkles, the iron was unplugged - to speak to you in the absence of underpants Go for it. Share below. I'll do the same and post my version on Sunday. Have fun!

Simple as this - Look at your sentences. Are they all the same? I suggest you read your work, bit by bit, aloud. Listen to the rhythm. Is it monotonous? Poetic? Erratic? Momentum builds? "This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals—sounds that say listen to this, it is important." Gary Provost (100 Ways to Improve Your Writing). My suggestion then is this: Read a section aloud. Then go back in and vary length, tone, rhythms, paragraphs, white space. Read it again. How does that feel?

WEEKLY RHYTHM (3 POSTS A WEEK) because it wakes up the algorithm to show the potential audience what you offer. You don’t need more than this. There are different kinds of posts, you know, we could use a short reel on Instagram, text based ones on social media and your own websites, longer form videos on YouTube, LinkedIn for more professional style ones. It's going to depend on what you are marketing. I'm sharing the ideas that I've used as a writer, teacher, artist...and yes, this world is constantly changing and the sands shift under my feet. My advice or suggestion is this, pick a platform. Just one. Don't overwhelm yourself. Use one prompt, no context dump as such but a thought out question or excerpt or clip of what you are offering. That’s all. No call to action, no offer, no explanation, just get yourself noticed with this one type of post. Then we'll mix it up with other kinds, adding hashtags and keywords. We'll get to that later this week. Seth Godin writes, "Consistency is the secret. Consistency of showing up, consistency of your message, consistency of your tone. The public has an instinct for authenticity." So be yourself. Share your passions.

Last chance, I just saw that @Siyon Kim you signed up! That's brilliant, thank you. I have sent you an email with the links. If anyone else has a last minute urge to join us, here's the info. The world needs more characters in fiction who are vibrant, authentic, and willing to challenge the status quo. Too often, characters on the page are reduced to tropes—flat and predictable, or written only in relation to others. This course is about changing that. Together, we’ll craft fully realized characters who are completely true to their own voices and stories—even when that upends cultural and societal expectations. This workshop is for fiction writers—whether you’re working on a short story, a novel-in-progress, or simply want to develop stronger characters. You’ll generate new material through short assignments that push you to experiment with different approaches to characterization, while paying attention to the craft choices that make unconventional narrators unforgettable. We’ll look at how the finer details, such as skills, interests, and relationships, can make characters stand taller, speak louder, and live more vividly on the page. Our discussions will help you refine your instincts for when to push against stereotypes and how to create characters who feel original and layered. You’ll generate and submit 1–2,000 new words, and we’ll workshop your writing with a three-point focus: what we loved, where we got a tad lost, and what we want to hear more about. You’ll leave the course with a set of new character-driven pieces, as well as the tools and confidence to continue developing complex, unconventional characters in your fiction. May 20, 2026: 8 Weeks Open to All, Text and Live Video, Zoom sessions Wednesdays at 8 PM Eastern, 2 hours each session. https://writers.com/course/writing-unconventional-characters