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Instagram Templates for Writers

by Eva, in category The Writer's Life

Feel free to use these Instagram templates in your posts and stories. Tag @fromladywriters in the photo if you want me to see!

If you want to know when I release new templates, please follow my Instagram account.

Challenges

The one page story challenge…

One Page Story Writing Challenge Prompts

 

The 7-Day Writing Challenge…

7 Day Writing Challenge List - Monthly Writing Challenges

 

Writing Prompt Lists

Write what you love journalling prompts…

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Virtual Write-In – Write With Me LIVE

by Eva, in category Short Stories

What better time to join a virtual write-in and enjoy some collective writing vibes?

Grab your work in progress, and click below…

DATE: 28 March 2020
START TIME:
Β 5pm UTC (Time Zone Converter)
CHAT WITH ME ON YOUTUBE HERE.
FOLLOW ON GOOGLE SLIDES HERE.

Last week’s write-in…

DATE: 21 March 2020
START TIME:
Β 5pm UTC (Time Zone Converter)
LEAVE A STORY REQUESTΒ here.
CHAT WITH ME ON YOUTUBEΒ here.
READ THE GOOGLE DOC here.

While You Wait

  1. Grab some story ideas.
  2. Watch a plot workshop.
  3. Learn how to write fast.

My worldbuilding course is closing at the end of the month. I’m not sure when it will re-open, so please, enrol now if you’re interested!

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE
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Myriorama Cards to Print

by Eva, in category Printables

Myriorama cards are slices of landscape paintings that can be arranged in any order to form continuous scenes. They were invented in the early 19th century by the French artist, Jean-Pierre Brès, as a genteel amusement and an aid to practice drawing composition.

Myriorama Cards - Scene

Myriorama Cards & The Secret Commonwealth

I first heard Sir Philip Pullman recommend them for writing inspiration in his BBC Imagine interview. They also make an appearance in The Secret Commonwealth!Β Since I couldn’t find a set to purchase, I did what I usually do: I printed my own. This isn’t the same set that Sir Philip uses (his set has 24 cards according toΒ this article), but it was the only one that I could find available in high resolution. It was digitised, appropriately enough, by the Bodleian Library. The illustrator is John Heaviside Clark. The date is 1824. Here is the original.Β There are a few other myrioramas in the collection, but they’re either incomplete, or too small to be printed:

  • Myriorama Second Series (with Italian scenery)
  • Polyorama
  • Miliorama
  • Choriorama

About these Myriorama Cards

This particular set was the first myriorama available in Britain, commissioned by publisherΒ Samuel Leigh. The cards form a rural seaside landscape, with picturesque ruins, thatched cottages, fields, islands, and a lighthouse (flying the Union Jack). Figures in Regency attire are depicted in various activities. There’s a beautiful balance and rhythm to the pictures, and a surprising amount of narrative and descriptive potential, when one looks closely.

Click here to Download Your Cards

There are 16 cards in total, 8 with people, and 8 without. In his advertisement, Leigh boasts that this would allow the player to create an astonishing,Β 20,922,789,999,000 different scene combinations!

Card Numbers

One of Leigh’s innovations was to number each card, allowing you to remember and recreate scenes. If you have difficulty reading the numbers, you can refer to the image files, which are in order.

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Printing

I recommend taking the files down to your local copy shop to be printed. I asked for mine on heavy, textured cardstock (300gr). The images should be printed at A4 or US Letter sizes WITHOUT being resized (unless you want them to be smaller).

I’ve included an optional design for the back of the cards. The background is larger than the page of cards, and if you ensure that all of the images are centred on the page, then you should have plenty of margin for printer movements.

The saturation will depend on the printer and paper you use. The images also look nice in black and white.

Create a Story with Your Myriorama Cards

These Myriorama cards are way more fun than I’d anticipated! Everyone I’ve shown them to becomes instantly absorbed in putting them in some sort of pleasing order.

They’re also an excellent tool for observation, and if you’re a writer, you can use them to practice your descriptive skills.

I created this 2-page worksheet to help you explore the landscape in your Myriorama cards, and to then create a story with them.

Click here to download your worksheet (PDF)

A Few Additional Prompts

  1. Draw two cards. Imagine they represent a “before and after”.
  2. How do you decide which figure is the main character, and which are secondary?
  3. Draw a random card for each of the 8 stages of the One Page Novel method. OR find the card that you think best matches each stage.
  4. Imagine that each card is a window pane.
  5. Turn a card upside down, and use some creativity to reflect this change in your story.
  6. Combine these cards with theΒ Alethiometer Cards and Muse Cards.
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Sources

  • Myrioramas, Endless Landscapes The Story of a Craze by Ralph Hyde
  • Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject by Sophie Thomas
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Northern Lights / Golden Compass Word Crawl

by Eva, in category NaNoWriMo, Writing Prompts

The new His Dark Materials TV series started today! But that’s no excuse to shirk our writing duties… especially if, like me, you’re currently engaged in writing 50,000 words a month for NaNoWriMo.

Complete this word crawl to enjoy Northern Lights (and your own story) in a new light…

The Secret Commonwealth & Lyra's Oxford

What is a word crawl?

A word crawl is a succinct narrative with embedded writing prompts.

Many word crawls take existing stories, and reformat them for fans to enjoy. They can be great motivation to get a lot of writing done!

Word crawls seem to have emerged in the NaNoWriMo forums, and the first recorded word crawl is this Word crawl/Pub Crawl by Emmylou.

You can find some popular perennial word crawls here. I drew inspiration for this crawl from the Extreme Harry Potter Word Crawls by my little bird.

Northern Lights Word Crawl

WARNING: Contains SPOILERS for Northern Lights (US: The Golden Compass) by Sir Philip Pullman.

DIFFICULTY: Intermediate
Click here for a TRACKING SPREADSHEET (File > Make a copy to use)
Skipping a step costs 1 gold coin.


Your mother sends you on an errand to the Jordan College kitchens, and as you’re waiting around, you decide to try and find Lyra. Write 300 words as you look for her.

  • If you finish in 1-5 minutes, you must be a COLLEGER. You know your way around.
  • If you finish in 5-10 minutes, you must be a TOWNIE. You’ve been in the College once or twice.
  • If you finish in over 10 minutes, you must be a GYPTIAN. You’re not from around here.

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Worldbuilding Demonstration

by Eva, in category Plotting, Worldbuilding

The Lady Writers League‘s long-awaited worldbuilding course, How to Lose Yourself in a World of Your Own Invention, is finally open!

Just in time to aid you in your Preptober planning!
CLICK HERE TO ENROL

How to Worldbuild on One Page

This video workshop walks you through the basic method I’ve developed to worldbuild on one page.

I love one-page solutions!

The One Page Novel is my method for plotting a novel on one page.

(If you haven’t done so already, I strongly recommend watching the video on how to plot a novel before you delve into this workshop.)

The Heroine Frame is my method for creating a character (actually an entire cast of characters) on one page.

In today’s demonstration, I introduce my method for developing story worlds: enterΒ the World Building.

All 3 methods mesh together to form a strong storytelling framework.

I’m far from being a born storyteller, but over the years, these simple solutions have allowed me to finish and publish for the first time.

I hope that they will work the same magic for you! :)

Worldbuilding Workshop

Watch on Youtube

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Resources

  1. The printable spellbook is available to all students enrolled in How to Lose Yourself in a World of Your Own Invention.
  2. The genre cheatsheets are exclusive to the One Page Novel course.
  3. The generic plotting cheatsheet is available in the One Page Novel Workbook in the Coterie.
  4. To learn more about the 8 stages of the One Page Novel method, please sign up for a free novel outline and training.

Worldbuilding Course

How to Lose Yourself in a World of Your Own Invention is available for pre-order for a LIMITED TIME.

Pre-order is always the lowest price at which a course is available. And with the main audio lessons already available, you don’t even have to wait!

CLICK HERE TO ENROL

I look forward to hearing all about the magical worlds that open up for you…

Love,
Eva.

Worldbuilding - Free Workshop

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