Mandie Hines Author

Poetry, Horror, Psychological Thrillers

Tagged: Inspiration

A brief look at inspiring elementary students with poetry. 2

On Writing / Poetry

Teaching Kids about Poetry

Local poet Steven Bates and I visited an elementary school this week to talk with 1st through 6th graders about poetry. It’s been a couple of years since the last time I had the opportunity to talk to kids about...

How to expand your writing life to include the parts that feel as though they are outside your ability. 7

On Writing

How to Grow as a Writer

Every writer who wants to be a published author has some aspect that they dread or try to avoid altogether. I wrote a post about Being a Writer and an Introvert that discussed some of the things that I struggle with,...

Inspirational post about setting a routine that signals your mind that it's time to write. 13

On Writing

NaNoInspo — Writing Warm-up

Let me start this out with a few questions for you to ask yourself. How do you prepare to write? What do you do to signal to yourself that it’s time to focus and work on your story? Do you...

NaNoInspo: Inspiration and Motivation to help writers achieve their writing goals for National Novel Writing Month. 12

On Writing

NaNoInspo — Who’s Your Writing Cheerleader?

It’s one week into National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and I hope everyone is off to a wonderful start to this challenge. For more information on NaNoWriMo and the project NaNoInspo check out the first post NaNoInspo — Getting Started....

Get a little inspiration to keep you motivated during National Novel Writing Month. 6

On Writing

NaNoInspo — Getting Started

It’s time to embark on the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge. NaNoWriMo is a call to writers to write 50,000 words in 30 days. It’s a chance to create something that before today didn’t exist. It is an awesome...