Overcome Writer's Block

Just when I thought I'd heard all the suggestions on how to overcome writer's block, I stumble on to this Overcome Writer's Block

Beat Writer's Block

Tired of staring at the blank page? Try these weird techniques to get you writing again.

Get Out of Writer's Block

Love Podcasts or Want to Try a Podcast for the First Time?

Here is a list of 20 podcasts for writers.

Creative Writing Podcasts

How About a Creativity Challenge?

Ready? Let's Go!

Five Creativity Challenges

Get Those Creative Juices Flowing

16

Here are 16 ways!

16 Ways to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

How to put the CREATIVE in creative writing.

Which step is your favorite? 

Becoming More Creative with Your Writing

Another Word for Gray

As a writer, I have often wanted to describe an object (a setting or a person) and make it stand out. One way I like to make things I'm describing stand out is to use new ways to describe old, common, ordinary, everyday things.

Color Thesaurus

A quick was to accomplish this, is be choosing the most accurate and specific words possible. For example color. Today, I was searching for a to describe something that was gray--without saying it was gray.

So . . . I googled some trusty and friendly color sites. These are sites I've used before. Let me know if you find them helpful as well.

Here are some words you could use instead of gray:

Fog
Slate
Stone
Charcoal
Bone
Pewter
Graphite

Guess which one I chose . . . ?