Writing 101: Day 20- The Future

So it's the last day of writing 101, I can hardly believe it. Anyway after a long day at work I've come home to write my piece for today, and I've browsed over a few posts that my fellow writing 101 participants have written which are all amazing. Now without further ado lets talk about …

Writing 101: Day 19- Round-up of great reads

So for today's writing 101 piece we were meant to feature a guest but I completely forgot to organise that so thankfully there was a second option. The second option is to create a round-up of great reads we've enjoyed this past week; seeing as I've been a bit distracted indulging in relaxation on my …

Writing 101: Day 18- A map as your muse

A/N: So for today's writing 101 exercise we are to use a map as our muse, so I've decided to use a map of Venice, Italy . Now I've chosen Venice because it's a place very close to my heart, when I was sixteen I went there with my mother for a week. It was …

Writing 101: Day 17- Mine your own material

A/N: So for writing 101 today we are meant to mine from our social media lives to get an idea for our writing but that doesn't really speak to me, the alternate option is to talk about a time we've left something behind and had to move on so I'm going to go with that. …

Writing 101: Day 16- Search your stats for post ideas

A/N: So for today's writing 101 exercise we are meant to search our blog's statistics for inspiration, I decided to take inspiration from the search terms section of my stats to see what searches bring people to my blog and I noticed a lot of the search terms there where about Pigsney. The word Pigsney …

Writing 101: Day 15- Take a cue from your readers

A/N: So a few days back for writing 101 we were asked to put a poll in one of our posts or set up a contact form so our readers could give us inspiration on what to write. I embedded a poll with a few options and got two votes both for different options so …

Writing 101: Day 14- Recreate a single day

0.00 am: My head hits the pillow, I pull up my covers and shut my eyes 0.30 am: I open my eyes, I can't sleep. I get out of bed and get a glass of water. 1.00 am: I got caught up in a conversation with my night owl room-mate, now I have finally arrived …

Writing 101: Day 13- Compose a series of vignettes

A/N: So I'm not really sure how I'll go with this task but here it goes. Her gown was dripping red. What a pretty colour thought the man as he laid upon the floor boards, such a nice contrast between the scarlet on the aquamarine. He was feeling woozy, and rather faint, and it was …

Writing 101: Day 12- Play with word count

A/N: So for writing 101 today we are meant to play with word counts, if we usually write short posts to write something long and vice versa. This is a little tough for me seeing as I already do a lot of experimenting with word counts, I actually have a category specifically for word counts …

Writing 101: Day 11- Writing and Not writing

A/N: So today for writing 101 we are meant to talk about what we do when we are not writing, well for me that entails quite a bit. Even though I'm a writer actual writing only takes up a small portion of my time, though I often wish I spent more time on my writing. …