• PAIN IS TEMPORARY

    DAILY WRITING PROMPTS 4 MY FAVOURITE quote, that has become my motto in life, is: “Pain is temporary – losing is forever.” Pretty sure it’s from a ghastly film with snakes on a plane, but that’s not why it resonates with me. Living with chronic pain, I came so close…

  • EVALENA STYF LINKS

    BLOG: FACEBOOK: INSTAGRAM: KO-FI: PINTEREST: REDBUBBLE: TIKTOK: TWITTER: YOUTUBE: Evalena Styf Evalena Styf Evalena Styf Evalena Styf Evalena Styf The Resilience Evalena Styf Evalena Styf Evalena Styf Evalena Styf Writing Coach Evalena Styf is a knowsy roll model and prolific content creator who lives in a queen size bed in the…

  • #11 ON MY BUCKET LIST

    DAILY WRITING PROMPTS 3 THE 11th ITEM on my bucket list is actually something fitting for this blog. I want to get a rejection letter from a known publisher. Just one. I don’t have it in me to do the whole query trenches thing where you send your manuscripts out…

  • NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS

    DAILY WRITING PROMPTS 2 THE ANSWER IS YES.  New Year’s Resolutions are my thing. I’ve been writing mine in the (very) early morning hours on the first day of the year for as long as I can remember. And with one exception, I have kept them all. There have been…

  • WHERE I WANTED TO BE

    DAILY WRITING PROMPTS 1 WELL LOOK AT THAT! This mammoth task started out a lot easier than I thought it would. Short answer: I spent the night at home in my bed. Same as I have for the last 700+ days thanks to this sodding pandemic and my unruly immune…

  • MEET EEWIL GRIMM

    MEET EEWIL, the youngest son of the Grim Reaper, Nefarious Grimm, and his wife Malicious. He’s a cheeky little prankster who loves having fun and making people laugh. In Eewil Grimm & the Guardian of Halloween, Eewil is faced with a mysttery and something of a dilemma. His father is…

  • WRITING PROMPTS
    Sword

    “She was mesmerizing. Her movements smooth and sensual, almost feline in nature. She danced like a ballerina around her opponent; Hefna, her sword, an extension of her right arm. Instant justice by cold, hard steel was meted out by Edda’s avenging Angel.” © Lïnnéa Lucifer, 2021 Writing prompt from #SeptemberSlugfest…

  • WRITING PROMPTS
    Huge, Large, Big

    Huge mistake leaving Large ego crumbling Big tears falling The sweet pain of growth © Evalena Styf, 2021 Writing prompt from #FlexVSS for the #WritingCommunity on Twitter, 1 September 2021. Word of the day: Huge/Large/Big.

  • LET’S TALK
    What’s Your Take on Magic?

    A LOT OF THE STORIES I read, watch and listen to have elements of magic in them. It can be anything from subtle hints to an underlying magic to elaborate magic systems. When I decided to get back into the manuscript for my Ulfrheim saga, it dawned on me that I had…

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    Better Under Pressure?

    HEY WRITER, do you know that the idea that you work better under pressure is a myth? It’s actually a misguided belief a lot of us tell ourselves. Studies show that no one works better under pressure, so why do we hold on to this belief? Psychologists say it’s a…