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The Parking Lot Confessional · 2d ago

500 Club (5/24)

Welcome to Thursday and the 500 Club! Before we get to today’s prompts, here’s a quick recap of the rules. Choose one of the prompts below. On your blog, write a 500-word story or scene based on the prompt. Post … Continue reading →
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The Parking Lot Confessional · 3d ago

Leg Day, Part 2

We’re writing a Round Robin story this week, each taking a turn to write a complete story in three posts. The crazy thing about this game is we don’t discuss the stories head of time, and we never know what … Continue reading →
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The Parking Lot Confessional · 5d ago

Leg Day, Part I

Welcome to another Round Robin story from the folks at the Parking Lot Confessional. If this is your first time reading, here’s how it goes. Today I’ll post the beginning of a story. My cohorts have no prior knowledge of what’s going to happen beyond these italics. That gives the next person only tw
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The Parking Lot Confessional · 1W ago

Fresh Eyes or a Fresh Load?

We’ve all gotten bad writing advice at one time or another. Most of us eventually shake it off and move on. Heck, I bet there are a few of you out there that have given bad writing advice. I won’t point fingers, … Continue reading →
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The Parking Lot Confessional · 1W ago

500 Club (5/17)

This Thursday I find myself ready to melt into the concrete. With some luck, maybe we can also thaw a bit of that creative glacier with a few writing prompts. Who knows where the word-runoff could lead. Here’s what to … Continue reading →
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The Parking Lot Confessional · 1W ago

The Worst Writing Advice I Ever Ignored

There’s a lot of writing advice out there. A lot of it is great. And some of it is B-A-D, bad. Like many things in life, you have to take writing advice with a grain of salt. Always trust your gut. My first real foray in writing was in 2004. I jumped in with both [...]
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The Parking Lot Confessional · 1W ago

The Sad Trombone

When I was in college, I had a creative writing instructor who would mark me down a full grade every time I included a fantastic element in my submissions. This was basically like punishing me for breathing. Halfway through the semester, I managed to scrape together a vignette about autumn, somethin
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The Parking Lot Confessional · 2W ago

500 Club (5/10)

I see we found our way to another Thursday and yet another set of writing prompts. Let’s see if we can’t wring some creative thoughts in 500 words. Think you can do it? Here’s all you need to know to get … Continue reading →
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The Parking Lot Confessional · 2W ago

How to get story ideas and learn new writing tricks faster

Hi, my name is Amy McLane, and I write epic fantasy. Here is a sampling of the books I’ve read in the past month or so, in reverse chronological order (and yes, this is related to that flashing neon sign of a blog title, don’t worry, we’re getting there): American Vampire by Scott Snyder (Horror, gr
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The Parking Lot Confessional · 3W ago

All Tied in Knots

It’s confession time, again. And there’s nothing worse than posting one of these that sounds more like a list of excuses than a list of accomplishments. I have a little of both this month. Okay, more of one than the other. For the last month I’ve felt like I’ve had my hands tied when it [...]
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