Tag Archives: Mina Witteman

Daily Prompt: Landscape

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

Today’s Daily Prompt is about Landscapes: When you gaze out your window — real or figurative — do you see the forest first, or the trees? Let’s hit the real part first. When I gaze out of my window I … Continue reading →

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The Grimm Way Check out my blog post on the TeachingAuthors Blog, where I show how I use Little Red Riding Hood to explain my creative writing students the necessity of conflict in story.  The last exercise in the blog … Continue reading →

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Writing Challenge: Opening Line!

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

Tomorrow will be D-Day for me and my fellow students, my brothers-in-ink. If all goes well, we will be teachers creative writing from that day on, accredited by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. To honour our hard work over … Continue reading →

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DP: Toot Your Horn

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

That’s an interesting one: Toot Your Horn. At the Daily Post they figure that most of us are excellent at being self-deprecating, but not so good at the opposite. Tell us your favorite thing about yourself, is today’s prompt. Tooting … Continue reading →

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Writerly New Beginnings

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

May 2013 be filled with love and words and words you love!

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Picture Poem

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What Would a Guy Do?

Posted on November 21, 2012 by

A couple days ago I skipped past my inner critic. It was a truly liberating feeling knowing that I can easily bypass that nagging voice. Freed from my inner constraints, I moved on to the next project. I sat down to … Continue reading →

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Time To Say No

Posted on November 19, 2012 by

A big chunk of my writer friends ‘do’ NaNoWriMo again this year, National Novel Writing Month. I suspect most people are familiar with the concept: write a novel of at least 50,000 words in one month, starting November 1 and … Continue reading →

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Let Your Inner Critic Speak

Posted on November 17, 2012 by

It’s almost done, the course Teaching Creative Writing. We have just a couple more months to go before graduation. Today we had a masterclass from a colleague writer/teacher focussing on the ‘guerilla between the writer and the creative writing teacher’. … Continue reading →

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No three-letter-words

Posted on November 16, 2012 by

Daily prompt prompts me to write an entire blog post without using three-letter-words. A true challenge, particularly to a foreigner like me. Could I do that? An entire post without a single three-letter-word? We will discover quickly. When procrastinating my … Continue reading →

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