Reading & Writing Lounge

If you want to write, but are stuck, look in the most obvious places for ideas. In this series, I’ll show you how you can derive ideas and inspiration from everyday things around you and from your life.
Newspapers are one of my favourite places for inspiration. Forget about the lead stories (those are good too, but [...]

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Want to write but run out of ideas?
Keep that pen moving - use writing prompts to get your daily dose of words done. Here are a few of my favourite places to go to when the idea-well dries up:

Writers Digest Writing Prompts (365 prompts for each day of the year)
Creative Writing Prompts
Random Prompt Generator
Writing Fix : [...]

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If you enjoy journaling or writing a diary, you would probably know about Samuel Pepys.
Pepys was born in 1633 and was an English naval administrator, but is now most famous for his diary. The detailed private diary that he kept during 1660–1669 was first published in the nineteenth century, and is an important source for [...]

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