The Prose: Its a website.

I recently posted the link to the Prose website in my links page, and you should have checked it out by now. No excuses. If for some reason you didn't, i.e., you suck, then here it is again.

 Prose. (theprose.com)

Why should you go here? Because I told you to, that's why. 
It is actually a cool/fun website where you can share snippets or even whole chapters of you writing with other writers. There is even an option to "publish" your book on Prose. You can sell by the chapter as you write them or finish your work and users can purchase it completed. It could be a good avenue to try for some of your earlier work. Get your feet wet and all that.

So far, I have found everyone on there to be positive and supportive of what I have shared. There are also some awesome writers on there.

Another reason to go to The Prose, is to free write. People can post "Challenges" and you can enter the challenges and write to the prompt however you want. An example challenge that I wrote for:

"Things you shouldn't say on a first date."

My response: “What's that fragrance you’re wearing? It smells so familiar.” Pauses for a while in awkward silence. “You know? You smell like my mom.”

Ok, that was a stupid one, but it got me writing and searching for more challenges. There are other more serious and more ridiculous Challenges out there.

Do them.

Free writing is a great way to get your creative slop flowing. There is no pressure. You don't have to live up to any fictional standards that you have invented for the characters in your real work. Pressure is off. Its freeing and liberating and all the synonyms you can think of. If your writers block is cemented in your brain channels, then get on the Prose and find a challenge and write something that does not relate to your main work at all. It will break the damn and the slop will pour out of your head like...like...think of something...

Need to Prose!

Check my writing out on The Prose under jtwannabewriter.

Prose. (theprose.com)