Do you meet up with your friends and family like you used to? How was the pandemic for you? How did the lockdowns, isolation and lack of social interaction impact your life?

Read about Henrietta, a rogue chicken and follow a how-to of Lynda Barry’s seven-minute Daily Diary writing exercise.

How to write more vivid, concrete details using things you remember or things you don’t.

Some ideas on writing a story about isolation and living alone on a small remote island.

How writing the weather into your scenes can affect your characters and scenes. Play with contrast and form but do try to avoid the cliches.

Do you enjoy writing science-fiction or fantasy? Here’s an idea from author N.K. Jemisin on how to go about inventing a new race of people.

Write a story to be read out loud, a family story you’ve told many times before.

Ideas on how to weave the weather into the emotional substance of your story.

What are nonverbal emotions? All those teeny tiny physical clues that reveal how your characters experience a moment or a scene.

Here's another piece of writing advice from Chuck Palahniuk - write from within the point of view of your characters not about them.

Write a story, from memory or imagined, exploring a sense of taste or smell.

Try this wonderful advice from Chuck Palahniuk in his book on writing Consider This, on building tension in your scenes.