The Idea Storm #writing #creativity

Hello, SEers. Mae here today with a look at Idea Storms. Recently, I was in my family room, comfy on the couch, plugging away on blog posts, when I realized something spectacular was happening outside. The weather had been unusually hot and, as often happens during summer, a pop-up thunderstorm rolled into the area. The counties to …

Five For Friday Book Share

Hey to all the Story Empire readers and welcome to our latest Friday post. Today, I'm combining a couple of the features we run on Friday's for a heaping helping of books. We don't normally do much to toot our horns about our books on this site, but I wanted to make everyone aware of …

Avoiding The Use of Clichés

Hey, SE Readers. Joan here today. In a recent post, I wrote about overusing similes and metaphors. Today I’m going to talk about other overused phrases in writing—clichés. Unlike similes and metaphors, which can be skillfully used, we should avoid clichés like the plague. So, what is a cliché? They are trite, stereotyped expressions, sentences, …

A #Scrivener Compiling Primer

Happy Monday to everyone! PH back in the house with some additional Scrivener tips, this week covering some compiling basics. This is a point at which you are ready to extract the manuscript from Scrivener and begin editing so it's important to have useful results that you want when you compile. But getting everything can …

Five For Friday: Funny Writing Memes

Hello SErs! Harmony here. It's Friday 🙂 And time for some Friday fun on Five for Friday ... Five funny writing memes ... 1.   2. 3.   4.   5. That's it from me. I hope I gave you an end of the week chuckle. Now, get back to work! lol. Have a great …