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Continue reading →: writing prompt friday: time, time and more time
Welcome back to Writing Prompt Friday. Keeping it simple this week with three prompts to hopefully help you fire up those creative brain cells and make your inner hamster do a Happy Dance. Oops, I saved him again… One Monday evening, after dinner, you use your grandfather’s pocket watch to…
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Continue reading →: 5 easy ways to write tighter, leaner and often better
Better writing takes practicing better habits. Nothing is perfect. Typos happen. And we all have bad habits we can’t quite kick. But as with sports, crafts and life in general, the more you practice what works, the better your results. Here are a few good ones that will rarely steer…
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Continue reading →: writing prompt friday: happily ever huh?
Welcome back to Writing Prompt Friday. One thing I think we can all agree on: Life is stressful. Especially now for many people. But not just now for everyone. So, this Writing Prompt Friday, let’s write a fairy tale based on this picture I’m randomly pulling from my media files.…
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Continue reading →: why your inner hamster kicks your muse’s ass
Our muse gets a lot of credit for our best work. Sometimes, it’s almost as if we don’t actually have control over what we do; everything good comes from that little voice inside our heads that tells us what to do. Call it what you will: “I was in the…
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Continue reading →: writing prompt friday: when whiskers rustle
I live with a cat. Her name is Henwen. I am her devoted servant and minion. She owns me and knows it. Over the last 10 years, I’ve learned that while she’s a sweetie little sweetheart of a precious sweetie 90 percent of the time. That other 10 percent…damn. She’s…
Hello,
I’m Erica Wall.
Award-winning copywriter.
Real-world creative writer.
Multi-cup-a-day coffee drinker.
Answers to a cat.
Resolutions for 2026
- Block off three hours a week to write
- Delegate more to reduce overwhelm
- Clean up and clean out home office
- Practice finishing what I start
- Practice good habits and let results be whatever they’ll be
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
> Stephen King
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
> Ernest Hemingway
“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
> F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
> Douglas Adams
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
>Albert Einstein
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