by explorereikiworld | Aug 31, 2021 | #roughwriters, A Writer's Platform, Columns, Raw Literature, Tips for Writers, Z-Uncategorized Carrot Sticks
Conflict is necessary when writing a story. Tension is the conflict’s little brother. While conflict might be more visible through a friend’s fight, a lover’s betrayal, or a tragic accident, it will keep the reader on edge from one scene to the next...
by explorereikiworld | Sep 8, 2020 | #FFRODEO, #roughwriters, A Writer's Platform, Columns, Raw Literature, Tips for Writers
Creative writing is defined as writing fiction or poetry with imagination and contrasts academic writing. As a creative writer, we imagine our character to gallop over the green pastures or drag his feet in the dry brown desert. To be able to take long firm strides...
by Ann Edall-Robson | Aug 11, 2020 | Columns, Memoir & Times Past, Tips for Writers
Write about what you know. My initial knee jerk, gut reaction, to that statement was, “No one would be interested in the things that I know.” Followed by, “I can’t write about some of that stuff! People wouldn’t believe half of it.” Needless to say, I got past my...
by Ann Edall-Robson | Jun 16, 2020 | Columns, Memoir & Times Past
Growing up, life, and events happened because they just did. As I got older, I had a different take on that thought, and every so often something would filter through my day creating a déjà vu moment. I maybe shrugged this off, but it got archived somewhere in the...
by Charli Mills | Feb 17, 2020 | Raw Literature
It’s an absolute delight to welcome author, M J Mallon to Carrot Ranch on her blog tour for her latest book, Mr. Sagittarius. Here at the ranch, our community’s mission is to make literary art accessible. What you decide to do with that art is up to each...
by Charli Mills | Oct 28, 2019 | #roughwriters, Raw Literature
It’s amazing to consider how prolific Geoff Le Pard is as an author. He turned on the fiction faucet in 2006, and it’s been blasting ever since as fast as icebergs melt. I read his first novel, Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle, several years ago,...
