Weekly Writing Prompt

SP Writers Block wants to assist you in getting your creative juices flowing.
Each week you’ll receive a sentence or a photograph/illustration as your writing prompt. 
These writing exercises will not only help in developing your creative writing skills,
they will also give you a chance to meet other writers.  So Let’s Write!

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August Writer’s Spotlight: Donna M. Banks

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Pittsburgh native and Author of Ila’s Diamonds

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New Steeler Season Begins-2008

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Vicki Farris is back with commentaries on our beloved Pittsburgh Steelers. #2 It’s Pre-Season.

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Joy Ike

Welcome to SOUL PITT LIVE! Featuring local musical artist, Joy Ike
Latest CD Release “Good Morning”

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This Week’s Poetry Contribution

“Slave Ship” by Deon C. Sanders and a limerick “Computer Girls” by Lewis Colyar. . . Read more »

Writing the Perfect Scene

by Randy Ingermanson 

Having trouble making the scenes in your novel work their magic? In this article, I’ll show you how to write the “perfect” scene. 

 Maybe you think it’s impossible to write the perfect scene. After all, who can choose every word perfectly, every thought, every sentence, every paragraph? What does perfection mean, anyway?   Honestly, I don’t know. Perfection is in the eye of the beholder. Style is a matter of taste. 

But structure is pretty well understood. Maybe you can’t write the perfectly styled scene. But you can write the perfectly structured scene. And that’s a whale of a lot better than writing a badly structured scene. Read more »