KatherineMMcDowell

Words hold power, imagination holds magic, books hold entire worlds. Readers travel galaxies and writers weave dreams. She/her. ☽✪☾ #amwriting #writerscommunity

[KatherineMMcDowell @KittyMMcDowell]

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[KatherineMMcDowell @KittyMMcDowell]

What's your #Writing Process?
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[KatherineMMcDowell @KittyMMcDowell]

Hello, #WritingCommunity! It's been a while since I've posted. Things have been busy. I've started graduate courses in a MAPW program, I'm working as a TA, & I have a new short story under review at Ploughshares. I hope to be on more in the future. #Write on! #writers #amwriting

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@michaelbloom Interesting. I wonder if they would be happy with their decision to step into another life in the end, or if they would learn the hard way that it is themselves that might need changing rather than the situation? So much potential! If you write this one, I'd love to read it!

[KatherineMMcDowell @KittyMMcDowell]

WRITING PROMPT WEDNESDAY - Your protagonist has a choice: keep the existence they know or walk through a door and have one chance at a new life... But if they do there's no going back. What happens?
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@novel_tee What genre(s) are you looking for?

[KatherineMMcDowell @KittyMMcDowell]

@michaelbloom This is very true. What sort of character do you think might risk it?

[KatherineMMcDowell @KittyMMcDowell]

WRITING PROMPT WEDNESDAY - What happens when a protagonist's daughter invites her new friend over, and it turns out the friend's mother is the protagonist's rival?
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@Morgan_rabbit1 That makes perfect sense. Otherwise it would be a bit like trying to put on a production without setting the stage first.

[KatherineMMcDowell @KittyMMcDowell]

#WritingCommunity, how do you begin writing a new piece of fiction? Do you create an outline? Simply start writing a rough draft? Or do you have another method to jump-start your creative process?
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[KatherineMMcDowell @KittyMMcDowell]

WRITING PROMPT WEDNESDAY - A detective finally closes a case only to realize they've helped convict the wrong person. What do they do? How does it affect their feelings and career?
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WRITING PROMPT WEDNESDAY - What if a child's imaginary friend turned out the be not-so-imaginary? Who or what is it? How do other characters react and how does it affect them?
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WRITING PROMPT WEDNESDAY - While emptying their estranged grandparent's attic, a protagonist finds old journals, and, reading them, finally gets to know their relative. What do they learn?
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[KatherineMMcDowell @KittyMMcDowell]

“A writer gets to live yet another life every time he or she creates a new story.”
― Pawan Mishra
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[KatherineMMcDowell @KittyMMcDowell]

What time of day (or night) do you find your muse is most active? When do you find #writing easiest or get the most #creative work done?
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WRITING PROMPT WEDNESDAY - What if your protagonist has been haunted by disturbing dreams... Only to discover that the details match a cold case murder. What do they do?
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[KatherineMMcDowell @KittyMMcDowell]

WRITING PROMPT WEDNESDAY - Write a short story in which a personified concept or natural force is your protagonist.
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[KatherineMMcDowell @KittyMMcDowell]

WRITING PROMPT WEDNESDAY - What if the coffees and teas served at a cafe were infused with magical herbs to grant patrons' wishes? How might this help or go wrong?
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WRITING PROMPT WEDNESDAY - A fisher's net pulls something strange out of the sea. What is it? What do they do about it?
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What happens when the hero of your story realizes the villain is right, and their methods, though criminal, may be the only way to fix things?
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