Happy Holidays fellow writers! With Thanksgiving around the corner, I’m taking this time to thank my readers for supporting Shantal Writes. I made this blog to help writers like me, who are struggling to get words on the page, to get started. It has been such a joy to get to share my experiences with […]
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Season 2 of Charmed continues to follow the Vera-Vaughn sisters as they navigate their new lives, relationships and the insidious war being waged on the witches by a society of demons seeking to make them extinct. In the most recent episode, we learn who the overlord is, what’s really happening with Jordan and that ring,
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When you have an idea for a story, where do you start writing? Do you start with a character, an interesting setting, or a peculiar situation you just have to write about? This is your entry point. It is the thing that opens the door for your story. Recently I discovered that my entry point is a
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“A Pride and Prejudice Remix” Before I get into this review, let’s talk about how I found Pride by Ibi Zoboi, because it’s bit of a coincidence and a journey. Recently I decided that I wanted to read books from the library instead of purchasing them. So, I dug around my room and found my
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When perfectionism creeps in, and motivation drops, getting yourself to write can be really difficult. When you procrastinate, it can make you feel like you’re miles away from your goals. Here is a list of 6 things to tell yourself when perfectionism gets in the way of writing to get you back on track. 1.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pitxxQYZcug Netflix’s Let It Snow (2019) follows a cast of characters as they navigate relationship problems in a snowy Christmas Eve. It stars several actors you might have seen before, like Shameik Moore from Spider-man Into the Spider Verse, Jacob Batalon from Spider-Man: Far From Home, Kiernan Shipka from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Isabela
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“All of my story ideas suck” I’m currently dealing with a problem that perhaps other writers have dealt with or are dealing with at this time: I hate all of my ideas. You may know what that feels like. You really want to write, but everything that comes to your mind just doesn’t “hit” right.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfSTiAw1rkM To celebrate Halloween this weekend, I watched Netflix’s newest horror film Eli (2019). It centers around a boy named Eli (Charlie Shotwell) and his parents (Kelly Reilly and Max Martin) who, desperate for a solution to Eli’s auto-immune disease, turn to a mysterious doctor (Lily Taylor) located in an isolated manor. As it turns
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Last month I finished my first draft of my short story Washed Up. I pantsed the thing for a little over a week until I got around 9k words. However, for some time now I’ve been struggling to figure out what to do next. I took the advice of other writing bloggers and spent some
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As a writer of color who grew up reading predominantly white stories, I have been making it my mission in my adulthood to read stories written by writers of color about characters of color. I love genre fiction and for many years I was under the impression that stories about characters of color in fantastical
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